Bringing Blood to Life
The Blood Project (TBP) is a not-for-profit organization committed to advancing medical knowledge about the crucial role of blood in human health, disease, and therapeutics. TBP offers open-access, web-based, and expertly curated learning tools and resources with the following goals:
- Enhance Hematological Knowledge: TBP aims to deepen clinicians’ understanding of hematology, fostering critical thinking and investigative skills that go beyond rote memorization in patient care.
- Promote Humanistic Perspectives: We emphasize the importance of humanistic approaches to blood and blood-related disorders, aiming to improve physicians’ well-being and enhance patient outcomes.
Explore our latest e-Learning materials, discover upcoming webinars and courses, or listen to Talking About Blood, The Blood Project’s podcast series.
What’s New?
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September 7, 2024 | View Tutorial on Atrophic Gastritis |
September 3, 2024 | View Tutorial on Mean Platelet Volume |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on 3:1 Rule |
August 29, 2024 | View Discussion on Anisochromia |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on Normocytic Normochromic IDA |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on Amphiuma Red Blood Cells |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on The Many (Lab) Faces of IDA |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on Leukopenia With Normal WBC Differential |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on Oxygen Dissociation Curve |
August 29, 2024 | View Discussion on Iron Deficiency in Bariatric Surgery |
August 29, 2024 | View Graphic on in Vitro and in Vivo Hemostasis |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Iron Deficiency in Vegetarians |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Hemolytic Markers in Blood and Urine |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Hematological Effects of Alcohol |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Classification of Thrombocytosis |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Physical Findings in Patient with Thrombocytosis |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Classification of Leukocytosis |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Physical Findings in Patient with Polycythemia |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Platelet Count Thresholds |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Metaphorical Representation of Poikilocytes |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Thrombin Time |
August 26, 2024 | View Discussion on Relationship Between RBC Indices |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Classification of Thrombocytopenia |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Ferritin in Iron Deficiency and/or Inflammation |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Recreational Hemoglobinuria |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Order Set in Patient with Macrocytosis |
August 26, 2024 | View Eponym – Pelger-Huet Anomaly |
August 26, 2024 | View Literature Review of Recreational MAHA |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on RBC Inclusions |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Unbound Iron Binding Capacity |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Classification of Absolute Polycythemia |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Prevalence of Thrombocytopenia in Cirrhosis |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Macrocytosis and Smoking |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Correction of MCV After Liver Transplant |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Macrocytosis and Smoking |
August 26, 2024 | View Tutorial on Hb Thresholds to Define Anemia |
August 26, 2024 | View Tutorial on Lymphocytopenia |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Symptoms of Iron Deficiency |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on Classification of Microcytic Anemia |
August 26, 2024 | View Graphic on LVAD and Thrombocytopenia |
August 26, 2024 | View Case Study – Name the Diagnosis in One Word |
August 26, 2024 | View Case Study – Name the Diagnosis in Two Words |
August 26, 2024 | View Case of Hyperferritinemia |
August 19, 2024 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Brenda Moore-McCann about The Art and Science of Medicine. |
July 21, 2024 | View Tutorial on The Definition of Anemia (Hb Thresholds) |
June 25, 2024 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Allen Burgenson about the horseshoe crab. |
June 25, 2024 | Read the Poem “Blood” by Ellene Glenn Moore |
June 16, 2024 | Did you know that the first written description of sickle cell disease (SCD) was by James B Herrick (1861-1954)? |
June 16, 2024 | Read Chidinma Iwu’s Essay on Blood as a Historical Anti-Aging Component and Contemporary Skin Care’s “Big Thing” |
May 7, 2024 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
May 7, 2024 | View Tutorial on Ovarian Vein Thrombosis |
May 2, 2024 | Did you know that the Unitarian Theory of Haemopoiesis was first proposed by Alexander. A Maximow? |
April 28, 2024 | View Tutorial on Mondor’s Disease |
April 20, 2024 | View Tutorial on Superficial Vein Thrombosis |
April 20, 2024 | View Case on Hb vs. Hct |
April 14, 2024 | View Graphic on Dilutional Thrombocytopenia |
April 10, 2024 | View Tutorial on Purpura Fulminans |
April 8, 2024 | View Tutorial on Valve Hemolysis |
April 4, 2024 | View Tutorial on Type 2N von Willebrand Disease |
March 31, 2024 | View Tutorial on Corticosteroids as First-Line Therapy in ITP |
March 21, 2024 | View Tutorial on Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin |
March 19, 2024 | Read about Eponyms in Hematology – Evans Syndrome |
March 17, 2024 | View Tutorial on Management of Cold Agglutinin Disease |
March 13, 2024 | View Tutorial on Oxygen Therapy in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease |
March 9, 2024 | Did you Know that Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) was the first to describe the size and shape of red cells? |
March 9, 2024 | Read Poem by S. Rupsha Mitra on Portrait With Blood |
March 7, 2024 | Did you Know that Hippos Secrete a Reddish Oily Fluid Sometimes Called “Blood Sweat” From Special Glands in Their Skin? |
February 20, 2024 | View Discussion on Should I Perform Endoscopy on my Patient with Pernicous Anemia? |
February 18, 2024 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Shenglin Liu on The Blood-Eating Vampire Bat |
February 17, 2024 | View Tutorial on Superficial Vein Thrombosis: To Anticoagulate or Not to Anticoagulate? |
February 15, 2024 | View Tutorial on Tumor Thrombosis: to Anticoagulate or Not to Anticoagulate? |
February 14, 2024 | View Tutorial on Behçet Syndrome: to Anticoagulate or Not to Anticoagulate? |
February 13, 2024 | View Tutorial on Lemierre Syndrome: to Anticoagulate or Not to Anticoagulate? |
February 11, 2024 | View Tutorial on Cerebral Venous Thrombosis |
February 7, 2024 | View Tutorial on DIC or Liver Disease? |
February 4, 2024 | Read about Eponyms in Hematology – Trousseau’s Syndrome |
January 24, 2024 | Did You Know that Erythrocytes Can be Magnetically Separated From Whole Blood? |
January 23, 2024 | Did You Know That the Disembodied Heart was Venerated Within Religions like Roman Catholicism and Buddhism in the Past? |
January 22, 2024 | Read Primer on Ferritin |
January 10, 2024 | Read Babli Yadav’s Essay on Bleeding Heart Vine and a Woman |
January 9, 2024 | Read Marshall Don. Graham’s Essay on The Coulter Principle: Early Implementations |
January 8, 2024 | Did you know that salicylates are found in willow bark, which was probably used in Mesopotamia? |
December 27, 2023 | View Case on CBC abnormalities |
December 27, 2023 | View Case on Thrombocytopenia and Coagulopathy |
December 26, 2023 | View Discussion on Temporal Pattern of MCV and Hb Reduction in Iron Deficiency Anemia |
December 26, 2023 | View Discussion on System 2 Thinking Approach to Thalassemia Minor vs. Iron Deficiency Anemia |
December 26, 2023 | View Case on Hemoglobin Electrophoresis |
December 26, 2023 | View Brain Teaser on How can Hydroxyurea Cause Elevated Hct? |
December 26, 2023 | View Graphic on Isolated Elevation in Prothrombin Time |
December 26, 2023 | View Graphic on The Splenic Challenge |
December 26, 2023 | View Graphic on the Journey of the Red Blood Cell |
December 26, 2023 | View Case related to WBC Descriptors |
December 26, 2023 | See Graphic on Leukemia in Clams |
December 26, 2023 | View Graphic on How do we Categorize Blood? |
December 26, 2023 | View Graphic on Anemia in Cats |
December 26, 2023 | View Question related to Oxygen Dissociation Curve |
December 26, 2023 | View Graphic on Reindeer Blood |
December 15, 2023 | Read Victoria Goldiee’s Essay on A History Of African Blood Rituals |
December 12, 2023 | View Tweetorial on Acquired Hemophilia A |
December 10, 2023 | View Discussion on Lymphocytopenia |
December 5, 2023 | View Discussion on the ESR |
November 27, 2023 | Read Hope Seck’s Essay on Hostile Blood: The Forgotten History of Rh Disease and its Miraculous Cure |
November 9, 2023 | View Discussion on Recreational MAHA |
November 2, 2023 | View Tweetorial on methemoglobinemia |
October 31, 2023 | Read Richard Sugg’s Essay on Scenes from the Secret History of Blood |
October 25, 2023 | View Tweetorial on Hypersplenism |
October 23, 2023 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
October 23, 2023 | Did you know that the human placenta was known as a source of haemopoietic stem cells since the 1960s? |
October 22, 2023 | Read Poem by Rebecca Wood on Lymphocyte Levels: Monthly Monitoring |
October 16, 2023 | Read Essay by AHJ George on Blood as an Oratory Vessel: How speakers use a singular theme with diverse effects |
October 9, 2023 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Jeremy Chernick crafting stage blood for the theatrical world. |
October 1, 2023 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
September 28, 2023 | View Graphic on iron therapy in restless leg syndrome. |
September 26, 2023 | View Graphic on screening for H Pylori in iron deficiency. |
September 26, 2023 | View Graphic on screening for Celiac disease in iron deficiency. |
September 26, 2023 | View Graphic on types of vitamin K. |
September 26, 2023 | View Graphic on human plasma proteome. |
September 25, 2023 | Read Discussion on HLH diagnosis. |
September 25, 2023 | Read Discussion on HbSC Disease. |
September 25, 2023 | Read Discussion on Plummer-Vinson Syndrome. |
September 24, 2023 | View Graphic on prevalence of macrocytosis. |
September 23, 2023 | Read Discussion on the threshold Hct for defining polycythemia. |
September 22, 2023 | View Graphic on classification of macrocytosis. |
September 21, 2023 | View Graphic on urobilinogen in hemolytic anemia. |
September 18, 2023 | View Graphic on classification of hemolytic anemia. |
September 18, 2023 | View Graphic on classification of absolute polycythemia. |
September 18, 2023 | See Graphic on hospital-acquired thrombocytopenia. |
September 16, 2023 | View Graphic on role of thyroid hormone in iron deficiency-associated cold sensitivity. |
September 16, 2023 | View Graphic on physical findings in patients with polycythemia. |
September 16, 2023 | Read Discussion on oxygen exchange in hereditary spherocytosis (HS). |
September 16, 2023 | View Graphic on physical findings in patients with sickle cell disease |
September 8, 2023 | Did you know that William Hewson (1739-1774) was a fellow of the Royal Society? |
August 17, 2023 | View Graphic on Morphological Classification of Anemia. |
August 16, 2024 | View Graphic on Classification of Microcytic Anemia. |
August 14, 2023 | View Trivia Quiz – It’s all in the %!! |
August 13, 2023 | View Tweetorial on White Blood Cell Count and Differential. |
August 12, 2023 | View Graphic on TMA in Pregnancy. |
August 12. 2023 | View Crib Sheet on WBC differential counts. |
August 10, 2023 | View Tweetorial on HELLP |
August 1, 2023 | See Q&A on Optimal Hct. |
July 17, 2023 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
June 13, 2023 | See Tweetorial on Wilson Disease and Hematology. |
June 11, 2023 | See Tweetorial on Pseudothrombocytopenia. |
June 11, 2023 | See case on Erythromelalgia. |
June 10, 2023 | See Tweetorial on Pancytopenia. |
June 10, 2023 | See Graphic on Platelet Distribution Width. |
June 6, 2023 | See Discussion on Döhle Bodies. |
May 30, 2023 | See Discussion on poikilocytes. |
May 22, 2023 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
May 22, 2023 | Did you know that Wallace H Coulter (1913 – 2098) was an American electrical engineer? |
May 16. 2023 | See Charlie Murphy’s Blood Vessel Glass Sculpture Series. |
May 4, 2023 | See Infographic on splenomegaly. |
May 4, 2023 | See Tweetorial on splenomegaly. |
May 4, 2023 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
May 2, 2023 | Did you know that some people “understood” genetics before scientists understood genetics? |
May 2, 2023 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Breanne Fahs about menstruation. |
April 17, 2023 | Read our new Infographic on hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). |
April 16, 2023 | See Tweetorial on hematological manifestations of anorexia nervosa. |
April 16, 2023 | See fourth Case in a new series on transfusion medicine, edited and written by Elena Nedelcu. |
April 14, 2023 | See Unknown CBC. |
April 10, 2023 | See Tweetorial on testosterone therapy and erythrocytosis. |
April 6, 2023 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing David Biale about an historian’s perspective on beliefs about blood. |
April 4, 2023 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
March 22, 2023 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
March 20, 2023 | Read Shaun McCann’s Essay “All that Glisters”. |
March 7, 2023 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Charlie Murphy about art-science experiments. |
February 17, 2023 | See Tweetorial on pseudohyperkalemia. |
February 8, 2023 | See third Case in a new series on transfusion medicine, edited and written by Elena Nedelcu. |
February 7, 2023 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Dr. Adir Shaolov about saying goodbye to patients. |
February 3, 2023 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
February 2, 2023 | See Tweetorial on smoking and leukocytosis. |
January 31, 2023 | See Tweetorial on GI bleeding and blood urea nitrogen. |
January 25, 2023 | New Case Study on a 29 year-old man with longstanding history of anemia and gallstones. |
January 25, 2023 | Did you know that glass frogs can achieve transparency by hiding circulating erythrocytes when sleeping? |
January 23, 2023 | Check out the second Case in a new series on transfusion medicine, edited and written by Elena Nedelcu. |
January 23, 2023 | See Tweetorial on folate deficiency. |
January 8, 2023 | Check out the first Case in a new series on transfusion medicine, edited and written by Elena Nedelcu. |
January 8, 2023 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Dr. John Harvey about veterinary hematology. |
January 6, 2023 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
January 4, 2023 | New Case Study on a 60 yo F with anemia and thrombocytopenia. |
December 21, 2022 | Read Breanne Fah’s Essay on The Menstruating Male Body. |
December 10, 2022 | See Tweetorial on iron homeostasis in chronic kidney disease. |
December 7, 2022 | See Tweetorial on platelet count ranges. |
December 5, 2022 | Read about a Case of bicytopenia. |
December 4, 2022 | Read about a Case of polycythemia. |
December 2, 2022 | See Tweetorial on reticulocytes. |
November 30, 2022 | See Tweetorial on the approach to the patient with polyclonal gammopathy. |
November 27, 2022 | See Tweetorial on the hematological manifestations of thyroid disease. |
November 23, 2022 | See Tweetorial on positive and negative acute phase proteins (reactants)/ |
November 20, 2022 | See Tweetorial on the hematologic manifestations of liver disease. |
November 17, 2022 | See Tweetorial on the effects of alcohol on the hematological system. |
November 14, 2022 | See Tweetorial on whether to obtain iron indices from fasting blood sample. |
November 14, 2022 | New Case Study on a 32 year-old woman with elevated serum transferrin saturation. |
November 11, 2022 | New Case Study on a 60 year-old man with an mean cell volume 55 fL. |
November 11, 2022 | New Case Study on a 53 year-old man with microcytic anemia. |
November 10, 2022 | Read about a patient’s experience with MGUS. |
November 10, 2022 | Read about a patient’s experience with essential thrombocythemia. |
November 10, 2022 | New Case Study on 38 year-old woman with microcytosis. |
November 10, 2022 | New Case Study on a 34 year-old man with hematocrit 57% |
November 10 2022 | Read Poem by Kristin LaFollette on Hematology. |
November 9, 2022 | New Case Study on 52 year-old woman with Hb 2.0 g/dL. |
November 2, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Dr. Bill Detrich on the remarkable adaptations of the bloodless Antarctic icefish. |
October 31, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Duffy-Null Associated Neutrophil Count (DANC). |
October 29, 2022 | See Tweetorial on hematological manifestations of SLE. |
October 27, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing John Edgar Browning about human vampires. |
October 25, 2022 | See Tweetorial on HbA1c. |
October 21, 2022 | Read Poem by RJ Arkhipov related to blood and intimacy. |
October 21, 2022 | Read Poem by RJ Arkhipov related to blood and stigma. |
October 21, 2022 | Read David Biale’s Essay on Blood as a Central Symbol in Jewish Culture. |
October 21, 2022 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
October 21, 2022 | Did you know that John Polidori MD (1795-1821), an Italian educated in the UK, wrote the story ‘The Vampire’? |
October 10, 2022 | See Tweetorial on first description of sickle cell disease. |
October 6, 2022 | Read our new Essay on Blood in Sports Drug Testing by Prof. Mario Thevis and colleagues. |
October 3, 2022 | See Tweetorial on space anemia. |
September 27, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Guy Trudel about blood in space. |
September 19, 2022 | Check out our new series, TBP Journal Club, edited by Brian Carney. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 34 year-old woman with sickle cell disease and pain crisis. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 24 year old woman with sickle cell disease and shortness of breath. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 72 year-old woman with Hct 61%. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 54 year-old man with macrocytosis (MCV 122 fL). |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 47 year-old outpatient woman with leukocytosis. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 65 year-old woman with positive hemolytic markers. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 66 year-old man with left thigh bleed and elevated PT and aPTT. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 56 year-old woman with nephrotic range proteinuria and an elevated PT and aPTT. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 65-year-old man with sudden onset swelling of arms, found to have an elevated aPTT. |
September 12, 2022 | New Case Study on 67 year-old man with postoperative bleeding and an elevated aPTT. |
September 7, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Zieve syndrome. |
September 6, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Gaïsbock syndrome. |
September 2, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Metaphors and blood. |
September 2, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Spur vs. Burr cells. |
September 2, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Hemolytic markers. |
September 2, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Spun Hct. |
September 2, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Fish-shaped red blood cells. |
August 31, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Classical Hematology – What’s in a Name? |
August 31, 2022 | See Tweetorial on Schistocytes. |
August 8, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Mark Hay about cooking with blood. |
August 4, 2022 | Read David Biale’s Essay on getting bad news. |
August 4, 2022 | Read David Biale’s interview with Avi Rechtman Essay on spiritual caregiving in an Israeli hematology ward. |
August 1, 2022 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
August 1, 2022 | Did you know that Pythagoras (570-495 AD) was aware of the dangers of ‘favism’? |
July 3, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on the red cell distribution width (RDW). |
June 27, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on the direct antiglobulin test (DAT). |
June 25, 2022 | 450 new questions/answers have been added to Blood FAQs. |
June 25, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on schistocytes. |
June 23, 2022 | See new Case Study on a 68 year-old woman presenting with postoperative thrombocytosis. |
June 21, 2022 | Did you know that cryo-EM has been used to uncover the molecular basis of prothrombin activation? |
June 8, 2022 | See new Case Study on a 77 year-old woman presenting to the emergency room with thrombocytopenia in the setting of infection. |
June 4, 2022 | Check out our new Case Study on a 68 year-old man with new onset thrombocytopenia in hospital. |
May 29, 2022 | Check out our new Case Study on a 56 year-old man who presents with anemia, thrombocytopenia, and mental status changes. |
May 18, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). |
May 18, 2022 | Did you know that that James Blundell, an English obstetrician, carried out the first human-to-human blood transfusion in the early 19th century? |
May 18, 2022 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
May 16, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD). |
May 16, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). |
May 13, 2022 | Did you know that anemia was first named as a clinical entity in 1807? |
May 12, 2022 | Try your hand at “Name That Cell” quiz! |
May 11, 2022 | Peripheral Smears of elliptocytes posted. |
May 11, 2022 | Check out Peripheral Smears from a patient with cold agglutinin disease. |
May 11, 2022 | Check out Peripheral Smears from a patient with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia. |
May 11, 2022 | Check out Peripheral Smears from a patient with pyruvate kinase deficiency. |
May 9, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on acquired von Willebrand syndrome. |
May 9, 2022 | Read Brenda Moore-McCann’s Essay on Seeing Red! |
May 8, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Isaac Odame about sickle cell disease. |
May 8, 2022 | See our new Infographic on thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). |
May 5, 2022 | Check out our new section on Blood Cells in 3D. |
May 1, 2022 | Read our new Infographic on factor V deficiency. |
April 21, 2022 | Read Mark Hay’s Essay on how the art and science of cooking with blood. |
April 21, 2022 | Read Chuck Barde’s Essay on blood meat. |
April 19, 2022 | See our new Infographic on iron deficiency anemia. |
April 19, 2022 | See our new Infographic on acute phase reactants. |
April 19, 2022 | See our new Infographic on hereditary spherocytosis. |
April 19, 2022 | See our new Infographic on superficial vein thrombosis. |
April 18, 2022 | Read David Biale’s Essay on how cancer makes us human. |
April 18, 2022 | See our new Infographic on vaso-occlusive crisis. |
April 18, 2022 | See our new Infographic on acute chest syndrome. |
April 17, 2022 | See our new Infographic on spur cell anemia. |
April 17, 2022 | See our new Infographic on polycythemia vera. |
April 17, 2022 | See our new Infographic on anemia. |
April 17, 2022 | See our new Infographic on the complete blood count. |
April 17, 2022 | See our new Infographic on erythrocytosis. |
April 15, 2022 | Did you know that Alfred Donné (1801-1878) invented photomicrography? |
April 15, 2022 | See our new Infographic on pernicious anemia. |
April 10, 2022 | Read the Poem, Miracle, by Seamus Heaney. |
April 10, 2022 | See our new Infographic on the red cell acanthocyte. |
April 10, 2022 | Check out our new Infographic on serum ferritin. |
April 10, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Melissa Ilardo about her research on breath-holding sea nomads. |
April 10, 2022 | Do you know the origin of the expression: “thinking outside the box”? |
April 10, 2022 | Try your hand at our new Art Interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
April 5, 2022 | Did you know that the first xenograft in the western world was carried out in Ireland in the 8th century? |
April 5, 2022 | Did you know that the experimental transmission of malaria by mosquitos was first demonstrated in birds in India in 1898 by Sir Ronald Ross? |
March 2, 2022 | Did you know that the first scientific connoisseur of art was a physician? |
Feb 19, 2022 | Did you know Rosalind Franklin produced the first clear X-ray images of crystallized DNA? |
Feb 19, 2022 | Check out Shaun McCann’s Essay on Serendipity in Medicine and Wine. |
Feb 15, 2022 | We are proud to announce that David Biale, a member of the Board of Advisors, has been selected as Chairman, Humanities Subcommittee. |
Feb 15, 2022 | Did you know that bleeding corpses were once used to solve murders? |
Feb 3, 2022 | Read a new collection of Poems by Kristin LaFollette, an award winning poet who has written extensively about blood. |
Feb 3, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Jean Wang, a clinician-scientist who collects stamps and uses them to tell stories about the blood. |
Jan 24, 2022 | Read an Essay by Brenda Moore-McCann and Shaun Richard McCann on the importance of the environment to hospitalized patients. |
Jan 22, 2022 | We welcome Kristin LaFollette and Noga Arikha as members of the Board of Advisors. |
Jan 10, 2022 | Did you know that blood has led the way toward regenerative medicine? |
Jan 9, 2022 | Did you know that Denis Burkitt, of Burkitt lymphoma fame, was a one-eyed Irish doctor? |
Jan 8, 2022 | Did you know that blood comes in all kinds of colors besides red? |
Jan 6, 2022 | Read an Essay by Stephen Stearns, a renowned evolutionary biologist, on how evolutionary insights bring added value to medicine by connecting ideas, inspiring insights, or improving clinical outcomes. |
Jan, 4, 2022 | Listen to new Talking about Blood Podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Parul Bhargava about the role of hematopathologist in patient care. |
Dec. 31, 2022 | Read about William Harvey’s own ‘blood project’ in this new Essay by William Aird. |
Dec 14, 2021 | Did you know that the Antarctic icefish is the only vertebrate known to lack red blood cells and hemoglobin? Such a cool creature, and one that teaches us about first principles in oxygen delivery! |
Dec 13, 2021 | Did you know that Ibn al-Nafis described the pulmonary circulation many centuries before William Harvey? |
Dec 11, 2021 | Try your hand at our new art interpretation exercise, brought to you by Brenda Moore-McCann. |
Dec 11, 2021 | Did you know that bovine babesiosis (Texas cattle fever) was the first disease definitively shown to be transmitted by an arthropod? |
Dec 11, 2021 | Did you know that William Harvey (1578-1657), the discoverer of the circulation, favored – against Aristotle – the priority and supremacy of blood above all else? |
Dec 8, 2021 | Watch part 1 of our online seminar with William Aird on the basics of the complete blood count. |
Dec 7, 2021 | Watch part 2 of our online seminar with Richard Schwartzstein explaining the why’s and how’s of oxygen and carbon dioxide binding to hemoglobin. |
Dec 5, 2021 | Did you know that Louis Pasteur was an artist? |
Dec 5, 2021 | Listen to new Talking about Blood podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing John Holcomb about his experience as a trauma surgeon on the battlefield. |
Nov 21, 2021 | Did you know that the complexity of the clotting cascade is a rallying cry for the Creationist movement? |
Nov 16, 2010 | Did you know that camel red cells have evolved to withstand hemolysis when dehydrated animals drink up to 50 liters in less than 5 min? |
Nov 14, 2021 | Listen to new Talking about Blood podcast episode with Helen Osborne interviewing Shaun McCann about his experience as a physician dealing with personal illness. |
Nov 14, 2021 | Did you know that the red blood cell is a miniature fermenter? Just one small step from making alcohol! |
Nov 11, 2021 | Watch part 1 of our new online seminar with Richard Schwartzstein explaining the why’s and how’s of oxygen and carbon dioxide binding to hemoglobin. |
Nov 11, 2021 | Test your observational skills with Brenda Moore-McCann’s new art interpretation exercise. |
Nov 11, 2021 | Did you know that sweet clover disease in bleeding cattle led to the discovery of vitamin K antagonists? John Harvey, our veterinarian hematologist, fills us in. |
Nov 7, 2021 | New case study on a “platelet millionaire” published. |
Nov 7, 2021 | Infographic on approach to the patient with thrombocytosis posted. |
Nov 4, 2021 | Infographic on DIC posted. |
Nov 4, 2021 | New case study on a patient presenting to the emergency room with hypotension and thrombocytopenia. |
Nov 1, 2021 | Infographic on approach to thrombocytopenia published. |
Nov 1, 2021 | Peripheral smear findings associated with iron deficiency anemia posted. |
Nov 1, 2021 | New infographic on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia posted. |
Nov 1, 2021 | Case study on postoperative thrombocytopenia posted. |
Oct 31, 2021 | New essay by Shaun McCann posted on changing views of blood since the Enlightenment. |
Oct 30, 2021 | Did you know that all the great discoveries in hematology before the middle of the 20th century were made by non-hematologists? William Aird makes the case that we should not think of these pioneers as “one of us”. |
Oct 29, 2021 | Read about the history of the Barr body in a new John Harvey Did you Know post. |
Oct 25, 2021 | New essay published by the Editor of the Humanities section, Charles Bardes, on the meaning of blood and related words. |
Oct 25, 2021 | New case study published on a patient with mental status changes, thrombocytopenia and anemia. |
Oct 24, 2021 | New essay published by William Aird on evolutionary medicine and blood. |
Oct 21, 2021 | We have started a new category of learning called Did You Know? Here we introduce interesting, fun facts about the blood from different perspectives, including comparative biology, evolutionary medicine and history of medicine. Check out our first entry! |
Oct 21, 2021 | Addition of a new quiz, focused on clinical prediction rules. |
Oct 12, 2021 | A 3rd dropdown filter option has been added to the Topics page. Not only can you choose according to subject area and platform, but also by level of difficulty. |
Oct 12, 2021 | Addition of peripheral smears on sickle cell disease. |
Oct 12, 2021 | New Case Study on a patient with thrombocytopenia published. |
Oct 4-12, 2021 | Addition of 240 new FAQs, and referencing of all answers to FAQs where appropriate. |
Oct 4, 2021 | TBP launch |
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