Dr. Anju Goel, MD, MPH, is a public health consultant and physician with more than 10 years of experience in the California public health system. Heavy periods can cause major blood loss and, in ...

Anisopoikilocytosis is when you have red blood cells that are of different sizes and shapes. It has several possible causes. Results from a blood smear can also find mild anisopoikilocytosis.

Megaloblastic anemia is a type of vitamin deficiency anemia that causes larger than normal red blood cells and enlarged and abnormal red blood cell precursors (megaloblasts) to appear in the bone ...

NAINR. 2004;4(4):231-239. Acanthocyte Erythrocyte identified by numerous spiny cytoplasmic projections; similar to a Burr cell Acanthocytosis, condition in which the majority of erythrocytes are ...

Hemoglobin has played a central role in the understanding of many biochemical and biophysical principles, as Eaton and colleagues point out on page 351 of this issue of Nature Structural Biology.