Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...

Aplastic anemia is when your bone marrow can’t make enough healthy blood cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. A CBC measures blood cell levels and is used to diagnose ...

I don't know about you, but every time I get a blood test done, the report makes me feel like I've accidentally opened someone's chemistry notes instead of my own health file. Abbreviations everywhere ...

A red blood cell (RBC) count measures the number of red blood cells in a sample of blood. It is part of a battery of tests called a complete blood count (CBC) that measures the different types and ...

An unusual white blood cell count can be a sign of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a type of blood cancer. CML can affect the balance of white blood cells in the blood and cause them to function ...

Lung cancer can raise white blood cell count when infections like bronchitis or pneumonia occur. A normal range is 3,700 to 10,500 per microliter. Chemotherapy can lower white blood cell counts by ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration ...

In medicine, a person’s blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person’s own stable values. Changes to ...