Congenital heart disease is any problem with the heart's development that a person is born with. It means the heart has not formed properly. It affects between four and nine children out of every 1000 ...

Researchers at the University of Houston, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, are developing new devices for ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, became the first person in New York state to be made symptom-free of sickle cell disease after ...

Recent literature has reported an association between blood transfusion and adverse outcome ... the prevalence rate of RDAT in critically ill children, without exclusion criteria based on prior ...

When someone is traumatically injured, giving them blood products before they arrive at the hospital—such as at the scene or ...

However, a child can have a different blood type to ... it can cause a life threatening immune system reaction. The blood transfusion will likely fail. A person with type O blood can donate ...

Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor Brennan gets to work drawing blood. Esther is back for her monthly blood ...