When you breathe, oxygen moves into your lungs and binds to hemoglobin, a protein in your red blood cells. In your ...

Weight loss in teenagers always needs attention. In addition to continued height and weight growth, their internal organs are still growing and their bones and brains are still developing.

For the average person, living at high altitude—where oxygen is sparser than at sea level—can have health benefits ranging ...

Anemia is the medical term for a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells circulating in the bloodstream. Red blood cells ...

When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen and ... Those who carry the sickle cell ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have developed a drug that mimics the effects of breathing low oxygen. In mice with Leigh ...

Dr Ravinder K Gupta, Dr Akhilpreet Kaur Anemia is a serious global public health problem that particularly affects young ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another ... The rigid, misshapen blood cells do not carry oxygen well, and they also tend to clog capillaries, causing an affected person's ...

Maintaining adequate iron levels during this period is helpful for both the mother and her infant. Iron is vital for producing hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood, and for ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr has left social media users scratching their heads after the Health and Human Services secretary nominee was recorded administering droplets of a mysterious blue liquid into his ...

SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital partners with Eye See Me African Bookstore to provide books promoting ...