Now that everyone who wants to sound sophisticated about health care is talking about “personalized medicine”---even the president!---the open question is, what part of medicine is going to get ...

IN the five years that have elapsed since the Rh factor in human red cells — better known as the Rh blood type — was first discovered, there has been a steadily increasing volume of literature on this ...

Patients who are Rh negative, if transfused with Rh-positive blood, can become immunized for anti-D immunoglobulin (Ig).1 These patients are at risk of severe transfusion reactions, and if they become ...

Rh typing is one among the 30 different blood grouping system currently in use. In this grouping human beings are differentiated as Rh positive and Rh negative based on the presence or absence of an ...

The ABO-Rh system of blood group typing is an immensely successful method that helps medical professionals safely perform blood transfusions throughout the world. Scientists from the French Blood ...

Coimbatore: With 3-5% of pregnant women coming to city hospitals with Rh incompatibility, gynecologists are advocating the importance of screening. Rh factor (Rhesus factor) is a genetically inherited ...

A blood type is classified by the presence or absence of antibodies and certain antigens on the surface of the red blood cells (RBCs). There are four distinct blood types; A, B, AB and O. Transfusion ...