Also known as thrombocytes, platelets are responsible for helping your blood clot to prevent excess bleeding and to promote wound-healing. Having a normal ... blood smear, and is done with a ...

Some of the reasons such formation may occur include stickier than normal platelets due to inhaling cigarette smoke, there being damage to the inner lining of a blood vessel wall or from a ...

"Blood clots that form near a site of injury are usually not concerning," says Chan. But clots that don't dissolve or that form abnormally are worrisome. Some of the reasons such formation may occur ...

Abstract: Cell enumeration and diagnosis using peripheral blood smears are routine tasks in many biological and pathological examinations. Not every area in the smear is appropriate for such tasks due ...

MORE THAN half a million adults in the North West are estimated to have undiagnosed high blood pressure that, when left untreated, can significantly increase the risk of heart attacks and stroke.

ANSWER: Although there are no clear studies to inform us of the ideal blood sugar control (the A1C ... benefits of keeping sugar levels near normal (with its reduced risk of small blood vessel ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the integration of deep learning (DL) architectures with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for automated leukemia detection in Peripheral Blood Smear (PBS) images.