What Is an Iron Infusion? Iron is a mineral your body needs to make hemoglobin, the part of red blood cells that carries oxygen to all your organs and tissues. An iron infusion is a treatment for low ...

Change in clinical practice would have clear benefits for patients undergoing major bowel surgery, according to analysis conducted by researchers from UCL and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

In a rigorous medical records study covering tens of thousands of patients, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that some patients with preoperative anemia have better outcomes if they get ...

THE purpose of this report is to call attention to one of the complications of the recently recognized syndrome known as fetomaternal transfusion. A number of reports 1–7 have described a clinical ...

Changing where a newborn baby is held before its umbilical cord is clamped could lead to improved uptake in hospitals of delayed cord clamping, leading to a decreased risk of iron deficiency in ...

Among patients with anemia undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), use of darbepoetin alfa plus iron results in only a small increase in hemoglobin levels and fails to reduce the ...