Rh disease of the newborn arises from incompatibility of the Rh factor between the mother and baby. It's a bit simplistic, but you can think of the Rh factor as a protein that is either present ...

The United States alone was reporting 40,000 cases of Rh disease annually. The author says that, before learning of Gorman, she’d never heard of Rh disease.

Rh disease doesn’t affect your health — but if you decline the RhoGAM shot, it can impact the health of your baby and those of future pregnancies. In fact, ...

Coalition forming to eradicate Rh disease. Checkmate on Rh Disease. Global Alliance to eradicate the disease kicks off at Stanford. March 07, 2016 08:32 AM Eastern Standard Time.

While researching Rh disease there he obtained a doctorate in zoology from Rutgers University. After 25 years at Ortho, he left to join another pharmaceutical company, Purdue Frederick.

William Pollack, a medical researcher who helped develop a vaccine that virtually eradicated a disease once responsible for 10,000 infant deaths a year in the United States, died Nov. 3 in Yorba ...

Find out how your blood type A B AB or O may influence your risk for certain health conditions from heart disease and stroke ...

In Rh disease, a mother’s blood is incompatible with the blood of her baby. While there are four blood types – O, A, B and AB – each is either positive or negative, ...

This protocol has dramatically reduced the incidence of Rh disease, which once posed a serious threat to newborns. Health patterns linked to blood types.

James Harrison, famously known as the “Man with the Golden Arm”, has passed away at the age of 88, leaving behind an incredible legacy of generosity. As Australia’s most prolific blood and ...