Roxadustat advances as a promising oral treatment for anemia in lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, targeting high ...

Beta-thalassemia and MDS can cause anemia. Reblozyl is approved to treat anemia if you have either of these conditions. Reblozyl increases the number of red blood cells by allowing immature red ...

Someone in the U.S. requires a blood transfusion every two seconds; over 12 million units of blood are needed to transfuse more than 4.5 million Americans every year.

Anemia affects almost 1 in 4 people worldwide. But while billions of people live with the disease, its signs and symptoms aren't just part of everyday life. "Anemia is one of the most common ...

Technological advances and new tools may offer the best chance to help underdeveloped blood deserts in the short term.

Half didn't receive blood unless their blood count was less than eight g/dL, the restrictive transfusion strategy. All patients in the study had a heart attack and anemia, meaning they had a ...

A 2023 study found that 22% of newborns with HDFN required phototherapy for jaundice, 1% required blood transfusion, and 0.5% required exchange transfusion or IVIg infusion.

In anemia of chronic disease, a person’s body has normal or higher stores of iron but low levels of iron in the blood. Inflammation hinders the body from using the stored iron to make enough ...

And fewer than 40% — just 4318 of 11,019 patients with anemia — were treated. Treatments included blood transfusions (32%), oral iron (12%), and intravenous iron supplementation (1%).

Their hemoglobin levels were catastrophically low — a sign of life-threatening anemia. The typical response would be a blood transfusion, but the local blood bank was empty.

The findings, published July 22 in Anesthesia & Analgesia, contribute to mounting evidence that such iron infusions, which boost the production of a person's own red blood cells, are better than ...