IN the course of a systematic search for tumor cells in the blood of patients with cancer of the female genital tract or of the head and neck areas, cells with the characteristics of megakaryocytes ...

Recently there have been reports of unexplained sepsis and deaths among intravenous drug abusers in Scotland, Ireland, and England. 1 Approximately one quarter of these cases have been associated with ...

AIIMS neurologists who injected stem cells taken from a patient's bone marrow back into his antecubital vein have found that around 60% of 12 patients were able to carry out daily activities within ...

Phlebotomy is the drawing of blood. A phlebotomist is someone with special training to do so. However, in many countries, other healthcare professionals can also draw blood (e.g., doctors, nurses, ...

There are 2 methods of bedside PICC insertion: the peel-away cannula technique and the modified-Seldinger technique. With the traditional peel-away cannula technique, access is established by ...