Local groups are raising awareness about sickle cell disease and encouraging people to roll up their sleeves and donate blood. Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder ...

Tatyana Thompson was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia as a baby. When she became a parent, her symptoms worsened. A treatment at Johns Hopkins finally cured her.

Obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are fueling increases in cardiovascular disease, even among much younger women, the ...

Blood pressure might not be something you think about often, but it plays a huge role in your overall health. Known as the ...

HealthDay News — A new model can predict when someone is likely to develop symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD) using a single blood test, according to a study published online February 19 in Nature ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new, easy-to-use blood test score that ...

Approximately one in seven adults in the United States has kidney disease, where the organs responsible for filtering waste ...

(HealthDay News) — A blood test designed to find cancer early did not work as hoped in a major new study, according to the company that makes it. The test, called Galleri, failed to lower the number ...

A new projection study estimates that nearly a third of women aged 22 to 44 will have been diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease by 2050 ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

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