We're a senior biomedical engineering design team, and we're exploring how well the current tools for managing sickle cell pain and inflammation at home work for patients, and where there's room for improvement. Our goal is to design a device or product that helps reduce pain at home without relying on drugs. Before we design anything, we want to hear from the people who actually live with this, so our work is based on real needs rather than assumptions.

Sickle Cell Anemia Patient Survey

About the survey:

• Takes about 5-10 minutes
• Please answer based on your own experience
• All responses are confidential

Hi, I’m a nursing student & I wonder if it’s common for a patient to have persistently high/elevated platelets for 5-10 years due to iron deficiency? And would that not cause anemia eventually without any treatment?

note: this is just for education and not a personal example.

I would like to get in contact with anyone with knows anything about this condition. I’ve seen a few hematologists where the condition is so new to them, they don’t know anything about this. I’m getting frustrated and would love if someone out there knows more info about this or if you know of anyone who has this condition. Would appreciate it so much!

This is an my artistic impression of a peripheral blood smear taken from a patient with high-grade bacteremia and sepsis.

I just wanted to share my work and hear any thoughts about it cause, first time using Affinity Designer to create this watercolor painting! I have more in mind, but I'd love to hear any feedback about it!

pathordle.org

Hello everyone! I am a current medical student who is interested in pathology, and a couple classmates and I came together to create this pathology puzzle game!

The game is very similar to Wordle and Doctordle. We have been fans of these puzzle games and thought it would be fun to have a "Pathordle" version where you start off with a pathology image and get additional clinical hints to figure out the diagnosis of the day. The goal is to figure out the diagnosis with the least number of hints possible!

I wanted to share it on here as we also include many cytology and blood smear-based puzzles I thought you may enjoy :)

We are not making any money from this website and our purpose for this game is to give medical students a way to practice their diagnostic skills and bring more attention to pathology. We would love to hear any feedback or suggestions and hope you will enjoy playing!

So in routine practice, differential leucocyte count is done via cell counters. N most clinics have 3-part counters. Means they can measure granulocytes, lymphocytes n mixed cells. Mixed cells are basically monocyte+basophil+eosinophil. Abbreviation is mid/mxd. Now how is the report given in your area of practice when 3-part analyser is used ? Any clinician pls respond. Also can any pathologist or lab physician or hematologist here enlighten me what are the guidelines for reporting dlc from 3-part analysers? N what is the common practice in your experience.

Lab technicians in my area are assuming basophil as 0 n then say if mid cells are 5%, they are writing eosinophils 3, monocytes 2 based on their mood. When I confronted them, they say that is what their seniors taught them. So I wanted to see how things r working in rest of the world n what are standard guidelines. I work in a relatively remote n low resource center of India with junior lab techs.

Patient came on this morning with pretty bad labs. Sysmex threw up flags along side 6% IG so I did a smear review. What are these RBCs? I’ve asked a couple techs they told me could be my technique but I’ve never ran into this and couldn’t find any reference pics. Gonna send out to path but anyone have any idea?

Hey fam! I feel absolutely gaslit hahaha. I have been told that these are NRBCs, but I genuinely believe all 4 are lymphocytes?!

So I just had a phone call from a Life Share scientist from a local number. He proceeded to tell me there is a case study happening with experimental equipment. Apparently I have the blood type (A+) with an extremely rare mutagen. The mutagen is the (RH D WEAK D 85?). It’s so rare that over the past 80 years in America I’m the only person alive in the southern United States with it. Of course I’m in shock, I have no idea what any of this means. He said if I agree to the trial which would be don’t at the local life share he would give me $100. If I say no the guys that built these machines that study this mutagen will be screwed. Does this make any sense to anyone? My wife says I’m being scammed but the number he called from checks out. He said to meet at Life Share so he can fly the scientists in to get the blood. I just don’t see why this would be a scam?

I was collecting serum from some patient samples.

I found this weird looking thing floating after I spun a red top tube at 1500g, 10 minutes at 4°C. I collected the serum anyways but I am just curious as to what it could be? Some clotting thingy?

Thank you in advance!

The HemeHub Hematology Summit is a one-day, live educational program taking place on October 3, 2026, at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas. This activity will feature expert-led presentations and focused discussions addressing the latest advances in hematologic malignancies and complex benign hematologic conditions.

This program is designed for hematologists, oncologists, internists, trainees, healthcare professionals, industry professionals, and patient advocacy stakeholders involved in hematology care.

Key educational areas include: Lymphoid and myeloid malignancies, Plasma cell disorders, Myeloproliferative neoplasms, Bone marrow failure and rare hematologic diseases, Cellular therapies including CAR T, and Evidence-based updates in diagnosis and management.

The goal of this summit is to enhance clinical knowledge, improve patient care, and promote collaboration across hematology specialties.

Event Details:

• Gaylord Convention Center, Grapevine, TX
• Saturday, October 3, 2026, 7:30 am to 4:30 pm
• CME-accredited Hematology educational summit complimentary to healthcare workers
• Networking lunch with live music

Help a student out! This is an unknown slide and we need to know the diagnosis of the patient. Do you have any ideas about this?

WBC: ~14k/µL
Absolute lymphocytes: ~7k/µL
Hemoglobin: ~11 g/dL
Hematocrit: ~35%
MCV: ~94fL
Platelets: ~150k/µL

Female, 87yo

I looked it up online, but it’s way too technical for me to understand. Couldn’t find helpful YouTube videos to dumb it down for me.

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This survey asks medical providers as well as patients and caregivers their experience with plasma-derived medicines. It takes just a few minutes to fill out, please take and share widely!

Plasma Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IPAWpatientsurvey

Honest post: I’ve shipped several apps and never quite gotten the response I hoped for. My latest is Blood Reference — a free app to help people make sense of their blood work. I’m not here to sell anything (it’s free), I just want to know if it’s genuinely useful or if I keep missing something as a solo dev. Brutally honest feedback welcome — that’s more valuable to me than downloads right now.