by MyH Editorial Team | Jun 23, 2026 | Lab Protocols
Procedure At-A-Glance The Wright stain is a Romanowsky-type stain used to differentiate blood cell types and detect abnormalities on a peripheral blood smear. Flood Slide Protocol Air-dry a well-made smear. Optionally fix in methanol. Flood the slide with...
by MyH Editorial Team | Jun 13, 2026 | Commentaries
Key Takeaways Over 10 years, no new silent cerebral infarcts (painless patches of brain injury) developed in children who received a matched sibling transplant. In the standard-care group, 5 additional children developed new silent infarcts. Children in the transplant...
by MyH Editorial Team | Jun 12, 2026 | Commentaries
Key Takeaways DLBCL is treatable with curative intent. Approximately two thirds of patients achieve long-term remission with first-line therapy. R-CHOP remains the backbone of initial treatment for most patients. Subtype matters. Molecular classification...
by MyH Editorial Team | Jun 11, 2026 | Commentaries
Key Takeaways Interferon-alpha is the only PV treatment that targets the root cause. Unlike phlebotomy or hydroxyurea, recombinant interferon-alpha directly attacks the mutant stem cells driving polycythemia vera. In some patients, after 2 to 5 years of...
by MyH Editorial Team | Jun 4, 2026 | White Blood Cells
Key Takeaways CMML (chronic myelomonocytic leukemia) is a blood cancer that starts in one faulty bone marrow stem cell and causes the body to overproduce monocytes, a type of white blood cell. It sits between two disease families: myelodysplastic syndromes and...
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