Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: polycythemia vera

  • Polycythemia rubra vera

    Polycythemia vera is a blood cancer in which the bone marrow generates too many red blood cells. It affects about one in every 50,000 people, primarily men over sixty years old, and is somewhat more common in subjects of Ashkenazi Jewish descent than in other populations. Though classified as a malignant disease, it runs a…

  • The Red Cross and hematology pioneers

    Barnabas PastoryDar es Salaam, Tanzania Providing medical care to suffering humankind constitutes an important part of the Red Cross’ service scope. History records an important connection between the Red Cross and pioneers in the subject matter of blood. The humanitarian service of the Red Cross began between 1859 and 1863 with the advocacy efforts of…