Haematology Archives - Page 13 of 136

Dementia risk tied to blood sugar level, even with no diabetes

A joint Group Health–University of Washington (UW) study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that higher blood sugar levels […]

More versatile approach to creating stem cells

Stem cells are key to the promise of regenerative medicine: the repair or replacement of injured tissues with custom grown […]

How Legionella subverts to survive

In humans, Legionella is responsible for the so-called Legionnaires’ disease, a form of bacterial pneumonia that is often lethal. The […]

First guidelines for treating non-transfusion-dependent thalassaemia introduced…

New guidelines released by the Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) address the Management of Non-Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemias (NTDT) and are a […]

Landmark US ruling on gene patents

The US Supreme Court’s ruling that human genes cannot be patented provides a clear precedent for the Australian Government to […]

Leap in leukemia treatment

Doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) have found a combination of drugs to potentially treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) more […]

Cause of two types of leaukamia discovered

Patients with two forms of leukemia, who currently have no viable treatment options, may benefit from existing drugs developed for […]

Injectable nano-network controls blood sugar in diabetics

In a promising development for diabetes treatment, researchers have developed a network of nanoscale particles that can be injected into […]

The lymphatic system the body's secondary circulatory system. Its functions are closely linked to the functions of the body's primary circulatory system, the blood circulation. Organs and cells of the lymphatic system play an integral role in supporting the immune system, which...