A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

More than half of patients in a Phase III clinical trial who received a limited course of the experimental monoclonal ...

Delayed platelet recovery (DPR) is common after allo-SCT. Insufficient data on risk factors and association with OS and TRM are available. We conducted a retrospective analysis of all allografts at ...

A pilot study conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine combined wearable technology and patient-reported outcomes to assess the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment in ...

Cerus Corporation (Nasdaq: CERS) today announced the start of the INITIATE study by the German Red Cross Blood Donation Service Baden-Württemberg – Hessen and its subsidiary organization, the German ...

Known as thrombocytopenia in medical terms, low platelet count is a health disorder in which your blood platelets are lower than normal. Platelets are the tiniest among the blood cells, much smaller ...

A collaborative study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine explores the effects of aspirin on a new biologic therapy, platelet rich plasma (PRP). This is the first study of its kind to ...

I am a 58-year-old female in reasonably good health. When I was young, I donated blood several times and would have continued to do so, had I ...

What Is Doptelet, and Why Does It Matter? Doptelet (avatrombopag) is a prescription medicine that helps the body make more platelets (cells that help stop bleeding). First approved in 2018 for adults, ...