A community portal about Anemia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Anemia or anaemia, from the Greek meaning "without blood", refers to a deficiency of red blood cells and/or hemoglobin. This results in a...
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A community portal about Anemia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Anemia or anaemia, from the Greek meaning "without blood", refers to a deficiency of red blood cells and/or hemoglobin. This results in a reduced ability of blood to transfer oxygen to the tissues, causing hypoxia ; since all human cells depend on oxygen for survival, varying degrees of anemia can have a wide range of clinical consequences. Hemoglobin has to be present to ensure adequate oxygenation of all body tissues and organs.
There has always been this myth that people in sub-Saharan Africa were more likely to get HIV because of differences in their sexual behaviour, or that they are more promiscuous.
“This shows that it’s not that simple, and I think it will be an important message for education programmes in these areas. — Dr. Ade Fakoya from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Source: BBC)
When I first began combing different news sources for Black higher ed reporting, I found a number of stories that focused...
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The stakes couldn’t be higher for Amgen this week, as it prepares for yet another FDA hearing on Thursday related to anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen. The two drugs, as well as one sold by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho Biotech under a license from Amgen, have spent the past year under fire from the scientific and medical communities, and the questioning doesn’t seem likely to stop any time soon.
The drugs are known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents; they are bioengineered proteins that...
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Two of the world’s largest drug companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses.
The payments are legal, but very few people outside of the doctors who receive them are aware of their [...]
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Haptoglobin is a blood protein made by the liver. Haptoglobin (abbreviated as Hp) is a protein in the blood plasma that binds free hemoglobin released from erythrocytes with high affinity and thereby inhibits its oxidative activity. Haptoglobin is produced mostly by hepatocytes but also by other tissues: e.g. skin, lung, and kidney. Haptoglobin, in its simplest form, consists of two α- and two β-chains, connected by disulfide bridges. The chains originate from a common precursor protein...
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Two of the world’s largest drug companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses.
The payments are legal, but very few people outside of the doctors who receive them are aware of [...]
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Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College may have discovered the precise role of a gene in one of the world's most common blood disorders, beta-thalassemia, commonly known as Cooley's anemia.
Anemia goes undetected in many people, and symptoms can be vague. Anemia can be caused by a deficiency in folate, iron and/or vitamins and can take months to years to develop. It is more a process of a disease, rather than a disease itself. In menstruatin
Genentech Inc., has just sent out a written warning to doctors about a type of anemia seen in patients treated with its popular cancer drug Avastin—bevacizumab—when taken with Pfizer Inc.’s Sutent in a clinical trial. The cases of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (MAHA) seen in a Phase 1 kidney...
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WASHINGTON - Genentech Inc has warned doctors about a type of anemia seen in patients treated with the company's blockbuster cancer drug Avastin in combination with Pfizer Inc's Sutent in a clinical trial, U.S. ...
