In 2024, WHO updated haemoglobin thresholds and revised the adjustments for altitude and smoking.1 The earlier elevation adjustments were established in 1989 and were based on a demographically ...

The mother of a baby boy diagnosed with a rare blood condition a week before his first birthday is urging people to join the ...

Read why anaemia in India continues to rise, with NFHS-5 data showing increased prevalence among children, women and men. The ...

Isn't it fascinating to know that a routine blood test can sometimes indicate the presence of cancer? Although a definitive cancer diagnosis usually requires specialised tests, such as imaging studies ...

Iron-deficiency anaemia has long been recognised as a feature of colorectal cancer (Goodman and Irvin, 1993). It is present in 11–57% of cancers (Curless et al, 1994; Majumdar et al, 1999; Roncoroni ...

According to Bhosale, Vitamin D plays a crucial role in maintaining proper levels of iron in the body, which is essential for making haemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.

Diagnosed with a rare blood condition a week before his first birthday, Ronnie's mother, Laura, first noticed increased ...

While anaemia among adolescent girls and boys, and women, particularly those of reproductive age has been studied extensively, anaemia in men has been largely ignored. In 2019, a paper published in ...

Anaemia is the most common blood related health problem in the world. In Kenya, about 30 percent of women of reproductive age (15-49 years) and 40 percent of children under the age of five years are ...

HbA1c is the most widely used marker for diagnosing and monitoring diabetes. It reflects average blood glucose over the previous three months by measuring the percentage of haemoglobin that has been ...

Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel, on Tuesday, asserted that the efforts to eliminate Sickle Cell Anaemia and TB ...