Approximately 40% of adolescent women experience heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), and 10–62% of them have an underlying bleeding disorder (BD). Diagnosing a BD remains challenging because of ...

Study of the bleeding tendency in uremia in 26 subjects, 10 of whom were bleeding, showed platelet counts and plasma coagulation factors to be normal. There was a significant inverse correlation ...

Scientists have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular barrier which makes blood-vessel walls ...

Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular barrier which ...

Since the discovery of platelets approximately 160 years ago, extensive research has characterized how platelets function and clarified their role in hemostasis, thrombosis, and in a number of ...

There are different types of blood cells in our body that perform different functions. Platelets are also one type of blood cells. Role of platelets is to heal the injuries and form blood clots that ...

You must have heard platelet count decreasing in diseases like dengue or viral infections. But do you know what it is and its role in your overall health? These are small colourless cell fragments in ...

Patients on prasugrel therapy have greater platelet inhibition than those taking maintenance doses of clopidogrel and thus require a longer time to return to baseline reactivity after stopping the ...

A new study successfully identifies new genetic variants involved in the formation of platelets and more importantly, defines how genes near these variants affect platelet size and number using a ...

Managing drug dosage is critical to the overall success of pharmaceutical intervention, not only in the clinic but also in clinical trials. Inadequate dose management of certain drugs can have fatal ...

THE term primary or "spontaneous" hemostasis refers to a complex series of biologic events occurring in immediate response to blood-vessel severance or injury. Although damaged or cut blood vessels ...