As a medical student, I put it together — my birth had induced antibodies to Rhesus factor, and Alan had developed immune hemolytic disease of the newborn. It is a disease of largely historical ...

Rh factor, or the Rhesus factor, is an antigen ... Rh factor plays a role in blood transfusion and haemolytic disease of the newborn (erythroblastosis foetalis). Transfusion of Rh+ blood to ...

Odofin warned that any form of disease that can cause high fever ... that might be because of the rhesus factor.” Consultant dermatologist, Dr Nkechi Enechukwu noted that a woman can suffer ...

An Australian man who donated blood plasma every three weeks for the past 70 years has died at the age of 88. James Harrison had an antibody in his blood that is used to create the Anti-D injection ...

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human ... insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), is available. Thus, we studied serum values of IGF-1 collected between birth (NB) and 17 years ...

Amid the outbreak of measles in West Texas, there’s a question of how contagious the disease is — and whether it will spread.