A courageous teenager from Burnley who bravely fought leukaemia and had to miss a year of college is now starting a new ...

Most experts would treat you for one to two weeks, then taper the medicine off over a few weeks. The side effects of this dose of steroids are modest if it does not need to be frequently repeated.

What can you tell me about the cause and treatment of immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP)? I am a 71-year-old male, and after lab results showed a low blood platelet count, I underwent a spleen and ...

ITP affects about 5 people per 10,000. It can be associated with other conditions that are hematologic (leukemia) or ...

THE “magic” of Christmas is something Matt Ridout can no longer stomach. It’s yet another painful reminder that his beautiful ...

The spread of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) outside of the blood or bone marrow is known as extramedullary involvement, and common sites include the skin, bone and lymph nodes. Here, we describe a ...

C. Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D., received HealthTree Foundation's prestigious 2025 Innovation Award for his work in developing CORAL, a new research tool that leverages AI to predict individual outcomes ...

A student who thought she had flu has described being "shell-shocked" when she was told she had cancer. Sophie Claxton, from ...

Among adults with evidence of systemic mast cell activation, bone marrow samples allowed for detection of 13 additional ...

For Rosemarie Fileen, something was amiss. "This was around 2017, and I was not feeling 100% myself," recalls the now 51-year ...

Celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson shared how his "terrific" community rallied around his family when daughter Monroe was diagnosed with leukemia in 2024.

The positive predictive value of gastrointestinal mastocytosis for SM involving the bone marrow was 95%, although sensitivity was only 31%. Gastrointestinal (GI) mastocytosis is predictive of systemic ...