Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD An ESR test can help detect inflammation in your body by measuring how quickly red ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs around the body. They then carry carbon dioxide from around the body back to the lungs. These cells are an important component of blood. However, a range of ...

Hydroxyurea is an oral chemotherapy drug that doctors may prescribe to people with sickle cell disease. It may help prevent complications due to sickle-shaped blood cells clumping together in small ...

One of medicine’s big mysteries is the bodily process that translates disease into death. One man who has been stubbornly looking for an answer is 43-year-old Dr. Melvin H. Knisely, a gaunt, tall (6 ...

Ligufalimab targets CD47, enhancing macrophage-mediated cancer cell destruction, and avoids red blood cell clumping, improving safety and efficacy. Early trials show ligufalimab, combined with Vidaza ...

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...