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 ...

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

A routine creatinine blood test may identify individuals at higher risk for osteoporosis and fractures, highlighting its potential as a risk assessment tool.

While there’s no crystal ball to predict your future health, there are a few basic tests you can give yourself to gauge your current strength, power, cardiovascular fitness and balance — all of which ...

A new, fast and easy test could revolutionize blood transfusions, giving blood centers and hospitals a reliable way to ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

A simple blood test can help detect cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, pain or weight loss. This ...

Platelets play a key role in the development of thrombotic complications in patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).1 Therefore, ...

1 Hematology Unit, Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine Administration, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh Second Health Cluster, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, ...