Platelets play an essential role in wound healing. Underproduction can cause devastating bleeding, while overproduction increases the deadly risk of thromboses. Maintaining a constant level of ...

Treatment for stage 2 essential thrombocythemia is highly personalized. Not every patient requires medication right away, and ...

Platelets are small, disc-shaped cell fragments in the blood that are essential to stop bleeding and to initiate blood clotting after injury. Platelet transfusions in patients with severe trauma or ...

Those with an increased risk of bleeding may require platelet transfusion in various medical situations such as after a severe injury or prior to major surgery, to prevent bleeding or excessive blood ...

Aside from transfusions, there currently is no way to boost people's platelet counts, leaving them at risk for uncontrolled bleeding. Could something as simple as a dietary change raise platelet ...

As people age they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, which can be caused when blood platelets clump together. This clumping can lead to strokes and cardiovascular disease. For decades, ...

Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), a rare blood disorder that causes an increase in the number of blood cells. Some symptoms include headaches, dizziness, ...

SAN DIEGO -- Treatment with an investigational oral inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) was safe and boosted platelet counts in heavily pretreated patients with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), ...

Representative results of turbulent energy and shear stress for VerMES3, VerMES10, and VerMES50. There exists a defective flow space in the area surrounded by yellow dotted lines. iPS cell-derived ...

PL BioScience, a German life science company specializing in the production and development of human platelet lysate (HPL) for cell expansion, reported the first-time production of an artificial HPL ...