HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- More than 454,000 people have died from COVID-19 and the infection rate is through the roof. While most are thinking about the older and compromised populations, a Houston ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a slow-growing blood cancer that can lead to complications such as blood clots, bleeding, and an enlarged spleen. In rare cases, it can progress to other blood cancers, which ...

A previously under-recognised cause of massively enlarged spleens is reported by scientists from Ghana and the UK in this week's LANCET. Enlarged spleens result from many disorders and are common in ...

Observation of Howell—Jolly bodies in the blood of children with sickle-cell anemia suggested the paradox of splenic hypofunction despite clinical splenomegaly. Spleen scans were performed with a ...

Gabriel Vilardi will miss an unknown amount of time recovering from an enlarged spleen, Rick Bowness told reporters on Friday. The ailment was discovered while Vilardi was being evaluated for a ...