Salt Lake City, UT - Further evidence that routine measurements of white-blood-cell (WBC) counts may offer a simple and inexpensive way to predict future cardiovascular-event risk has been reported.

The study's findings suggest that high baseline white blood cell count, particularly high neutrophil count, was associated with a higher incidence of long-term acute exacerbation of chronic ...

May 14, 2012 (Thessaloniki, Greece) — Infants with pertussis and high or rapidly increasing white blood cell (WBC) counts are more likely to become critically ill than those with lower counts, ...

A Rutgers researcher, through his spinoff company, has led a team to design and test a device that quickly counts a person's white blood cells with a single drop of blood, similar to the way ...

A pregnant person’s white blood cell count may increase throughout pregnancy and immediately after. Treatment is usually unnecessary unless there is an underlying infection. White blood cells (WBCs), ...

What is the workup for persistent (months to years) elevation of the WBC count in an asymptomatic patient who demonstrates no other abnormalities in the complete blood count? —Phuong Thi Ngoc, DO, ...

Genome-Wide Analysis of Survival in Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with pretreatment WBC counts greater than 10,000/μL is still considered to carry a poorer ...

A routine Complete Blood Count (CBC) offers vital insights into your health, revealing levels of red blood cells for oxygen transport, white blood cells for immunity, and platelets for clotting.