Anemia continues to be a major global health problem and the World Health Organization
(WHO) estimates that about two billion people (25% of world's population) have some form …

the World Health Organization has developed a visual method for estimating blood
hemoglobin concentration.[...] instruments inevitably malfunction requiring parts and highly …

Anemia is a common blood disorder characterized by a depletion of red blood cells. This
condition is prevalent in third world countries and in areas with scarce resources. There are …

Many clinics in underdeveloped countries lack stable electricity, climate control,
refrigeration, clean water, and properly trained staff, necessary to implement modern …

Abstract Serjeant, BE, and Serjeant, GR: A whole blood solubility and centrifugation test for
sickle cell hemoglobin: A clinical trial. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 58: 11–13, 1972. A rapid whole …

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a common and life-threatening inherited disorder of
hemoglobin, affecting over 400,000 newborns annually. The majority of these births occur in …

This paper describes and compares methods and analyzers used to measure hemoglobin
(Hb) in clinical laboratories and field settings. We conducted a literature review for methods …

Objective We compared hemoglobin results from manually mixed blood gas (BG) Portex
syringes (Smiths Medical) and automatically mixed safePICO BG syringes (Radiometer …

Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, nearly a quarter of a million babies are born with sickle cell
disease (SCD) each year. An estimated 50-90% of these babies die before age 5 due to lack …

Abstract Abstract 2064 Background: Systematic newborn screening (NBS) for sickle cell
anemia (SCA) is a practice limited almost entirely to developed countries, which include only …