Every time you experience a common cold or other symptoms of infection, it is an indication of a low WBC count. Also known as leukocytes, white blood cells form 1% of your blood but have a very ...

Thrombotic events are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for patients with polycythemia vera (PV), and previous reports have shown a significant correlation between elevated white blood ...

An unusual white blood cell count can be a sign of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a type of blood cancer. CML can affect the balance of white blood cells in the blood and cause them to function ...

In a recent study posted to Research Square* preprint server, and currently under consideration at the Journal of Inflammation, researchers conducted an observational study to evaluate the association ...

NEW ORLEANS — An acute postoperative infection following total knee replacement is a difficult diagnosis for the orthopedic surgeon to make. A recent multicenter, multisurgeon study, however, provides ...

White blood cells (WBCs) in our bodies help fight infections. There are various types of WBCs; each has its own way of fighting microbial infections. The most important WBC is called the neutrophil.

The results, published in the March 14, 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, show that a WBC count greater than 6.7x10 9 cells/L may identify individuals at high risk of cardiovascular ...

Salt Lake City, UT - Further evidence that routine measurements of white-blood-cell (WBC) counts may offer a simple and inexpensive way to predict future cardiovascular-event risk has been reported.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — While the standard diagnosis of a chronic infection after total hip arthroplasty takes into ...

Genome-Wide Analysis of Survival in Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with pretreatment WBC counts greater than 10,000/μL is still considered to carry a poorer ...