Now that everyone who wants to sound sophisticated about health care is talking about “personalized medicine”---even the president!---the open question is, what part of medicine is going to get ...

Patients who are Rh negative, if transfused with Rh-positive blood, can become immunized for anti-D immunoglobulin (Ig).1 These patients are at risk of severe transfusion reactions, and if they become ...

IN the five years that have elapsed since the Rh factor in human red cells — better known as the Rh blood type — was first discovered, there has been a steadily increasing volume of literature on this ...

A blood type is classified by the presence or absence of antibodies and certain antigens on the surface of the red blood cells (RBCs). There are four distinct blood types; A, B, AB and O. Transfusion ...

Suchandrima Bhowmik has written over 300 articles on various health conditions, medical news, and recent breakthroughs. Her work appears in several publications, including Medical News Today, ...

Coimbatore: With 3-5% of pregnant women coming to city hospitals with Rh incompatibility, gynecologists are advocating the importance of screening. Rh factor (Rhesus factor) is a genetically inherited ...