At Huntsman Cancer Institute, you receive expert, highly specialized care for benign bleeding and clotting disorders. Your care team includes hematologists, nurse coordinators, social workers, ...

Megakaryocytes, which are derived from hematopoietic stem cell precursors in bone marrow, form and release platelets; these circulate in the blood for 8 to 10 days before they are removed by hepatic ...

(Family Features) Many people don’t think much about whether their blood is clotting properly. However, when you have a bleeding disorder, a condition that affects the way your body controls clots, it ...

Blood has many functions and circulates throughout your body. As a result, problems with it can affect you in many ways. Some of those problems can stem from a blood disorder. These disorders can ...

Each March since 2016, Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month has been observed. The designation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service was part of an ongoing effort to spread awareness of ...

Coagulation disorders refer to conditions that affect how the body controls blood clotting. This can mean the body forms too many or too few blood clots. Coagulation disorders are usually due to a ...

INDIANAPOLIS–March is Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month. More than 60,000 people in Indiana are living with a bleeding disorder and the majority of them don’t even know it. A bleeding disorder is ...

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global Genes, a leading patient advocacy organization, and Bleeding Disorders Alliance Illinois (BDAI), a non-profit focused on improving the quality of life for ...

The recommendations aim to make this type of evaluation more consistent in cases when children have suspicious bruising or bleeding patterns. “When bleeding or bruising is suspicious for child abuse, ...

A new review article illuminates why physicians should keep coagulation disorders in mind when evaluating patients with heavy abnormal uterine bleeding. Physicians treating patients with heavy ...

Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a genetic bleeding disorder that is passed down from parent to child and affects both men and women. People with VWD do not make enough protein — known as the von ...