White blood cells (WBC), also known as leukocytes, are colorless, round cells with a very distinct nucleus when compared with the other cells in the body. Without WBC humans will be prone to a lot of ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Eating foods like yogurt, lean proteins, and vegetables can support healthy white blood cell levels. Medicines like Neupogen ...

Myelosuppression, or bone marrow suppression, is when there are fewer red and white blood cells and platelets due to reduced bone marrow activity. It can affect people with blood cancers and those ...

Testing for white blood cell count and white cell differentials is an important part of leukemia diagnosis. But even after diagnosis, your white blood cell count helps monitor disease progression and ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells, suggesting that the chronic stress of discrimination may hamper the ...

A new study shows that already a 30-minute exercise can increase the proportion of tumor-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer patients. A new Finnish study from University of ...