Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes ...

Red blood cells may hold the secret to fighting diabetes—by soaking up sugar when oxygen runs low. People who live high in the mountains have long been observed to develop diabetes less often than ...

In a 2023 paper on hypoxia and glucose metabolism, our lab showed how organisms rewire their metabolism to adapt to low ...

Dr. James Faber is professor of cell biology and physiology at the UNC School of Medicine. Here he explains how principles of chemistry and physiology combine to create the color scheme of blood.

Dear Dr. Roach: My wife, 69, has had issues for several years with high counts of red blood cells, hemoglobin and hematocrit. This all started back in 2017. Recently, she had severe pain in her ...

What Is a RDW Blood Test? An RDW blood test – also known as a red blood cell distribution width blood test – is a measure of the difference in your red blood cells’ size and volume. RDW is one part of ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of hereditary red blood cell disorders. Sickle cell anemia is a type of SCD that occurs when a person inherits genes containing an atypical form of hemoglobin.