LAKE ZURICH, Ill. & WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A $30 test that takes fewer than 30 minutes to perform can prevent potentially deadly transfusions of bacterial contamination in platelets, ...

A Complete Blood Count (CBC) provides much more information than red and white blood cell counts. It also includes platelet-related measurements that can offer useful insights into overall health. One ...

Q: My platelets were slightly elevated on my blood test. What can cause this? A: Platelets are part of how our body forms clots to stop bleeding. They are produced in the bone marrow by cells called ...

An MPV blood test measures the average size of your platelets, which can suggest certain health conditions. High MPV, with larger cells, means your body is making new platelets quickly. Smaller cells ...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verax Biomedical today announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Fisher Healthcare, a large healthcare laboratory product distributor, authorizing ...

Thetoday reported on the most serious infectious risks facing the blood supply: bacterial contamination of donated platelets. In its article, titled “The Biggest Blood Supply Risk: Tainted Platelets,” ...

An experimental genetic test can gauge a person's risk of developing potentially deadly blood clots, researchers report. People who scored high on the test had more than double the rate of heart ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) treated with prasugrel, the incidence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity depends on the type of platelet function test used, ...

Researchers in the Netherlands have designed a different approach to the liquid biopsy. Rather than looking for evidence of cancer DNA or other biomarkers in the blood, their test (called thromboSeq) ...