» Study records improved blood flow within a month of replacing cigarettes with vaping
18/11/19 14:01 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Switching from cigarettes to an electronic equivalent has prompt and significant benefits on vascular function, a randomised trial has shown.1A month after switching, participants in the trial had...

» Blood markers to diagnose Parkinson’s . . . and other stories
14/11/19 12:01 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Biomarkers for Parkinson’s diseaseScreening 1000 different proteins in blood samples from people with Parkinson’s disease and controls identified 10 candidate biomarkers for the disease. Four of...

» High Court rules that 14 year old Jehovah’s Witness should have blood transfusions
13/11/19 16:35 from Latest headlines from BMJ
A High Court judge has given the go-ahead for doctors to give blood transfusions to a 14 year old Jehovah’s Witness boy after hearing that he would be “angry and upset” but wanted to survive.1The...

» Guidelines from the 2017 European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia for management of HHV-6 infection in patients with hematologic malignancies and after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
30/10/19 23:05 from Haematologica current issue
Of the two human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) species, human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B) encephalitis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Guidelines for the management of HHV-6 infec...

» A Tie2-Notch1 signaling axis regulates regeneration of the endothelial bone marrow niche
30/10/19 23:05 from Haematologica current issue
Loss-of-function studies have determined that Notch signaling is essential for hematopoietic and endothelial development. By deleting a single allele of the Notch1 transcriptional activation domain we generated viable, post-natal mice ex...

» Altered parasite life-cycle processes characterize Babesia divergens infection in human sickle cell anemia
30/10/19 23:05 from Haematologica current issue
Babesia divergens is an intra-erythrocytic parasite that causes malaria-like symptoms in infected people. As the erythrocyte provides the parasite with the infra-structure to grow and multiply, any perturbation to the cell should impact ...

» Distinguishing essential thrombocythemia JAK2V617F from polycythemia vera: limitations of erythrocyte values
30/10/19 23:05 from Haematologica current issue
Distinguishing essential thrombocythemia JAK2 V617F from polycythemia vera is difficult because of shared mutation and phenotypic characteristics. The World Health Organization suggested hemoglobin and hematocrit values to diagnose polyc...