Zydus Lifesciences announced a significant development for beta-thalassemia patients. The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Orpha...

A woman in Karnataka is the first person identified with the CRIB blood group antigen. Doctors discovered it during a cardiac surgery when ...

A rare blood group, CRIB, has been identified by scientists from India and the UK. The blood group was found in a 38-year-old woman from Ko...

Tata Memorial Centre's ACTREC offers affordable high-dose MIBG therapy (Rs 7-8 lakh) for neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer. This treatment,...

The UK's NHS has rolled out a new anti-cancer jab that can reduce treatment time by three quarters. The seven-minute injection, which is ad...

Atezolizumab - made by Genentech, a Roche company - is an immunotherapy drug that empowers a patient's own immune system to seek and destro...

Plasma therapy involves taking antibodies from the blood of a person who has recovered from Covid-19 and transfusing it into a novel corona...

It is vital to raise awareness about the health benefits of blood donation.

A medical equipment that carries out the apheresis procedure was installed at a Government Medical College Hospital at nearby Thrissur last...

The doctor from Orai in Uttar Pradesh was administered the plasma donated by a woman doctor from Canada who was the first COVID-19 patient ...

Transfer of blood from one blood bank to another has now been allowed, a move that will help take it to places of scarcity to save lives.

Even without transfusion, treating dengue could cost anywhere between Rs 16,000 in a mid-level hospital and Rs 67,000 in a high-end one.

It has alarmed alternative medicine practitioners. Industry insiders say Mumbai hospitals too could face hardships during emergencies.

Clinical trials of convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) have started in Liberia, and are due to begin soon in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

"Instructions have also been issued to make blood storage centres functional and provide linkage with existing blood banks in their vicinit...

Gearing up to meet high standards of safety in blood transfusion, the Government on Thursday approved providing the four major metros with ...

In a rare distinction, Chitra Bharucha, an India-born haematologist, took charge as the acting chairperson of the British Broadcasting Corp...