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Background Pancytopenia has a broad differential in pediatrics,1,2 including infectious bone marrow suppression,3-5 bone marrow failure syndromes,6-8 and hematologic malignancies.9 While clinical features aid diagnostic evaluation, definitive diagnos...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hemoglobinopathy that affects 500,000 newborns annually, the majority of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa.1,2 In Western Kenya, an estimated 20% to 25% of the population carries the sickle cell trait and approximately 1....

Global hematology is often framed as a future aspiration taking shape as infrastructure and workforce capacity mature. In Malawi, global hematology unfolds in crowded clinics, wards, and blood banks where sickle cell disease (SCD), cancer, and transf...

My name is Byron, and I am a hematology fellow in Uruguay. I was born and raised in Guatemala alongside my two sisters, guided by my mother who is a physician and my father who is a veterinarian. From an early age, I lived the reality of cancer: my g...

Congratulations on planning your trip to the 67th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida! This premier event in hematology attracts tens of thousands of participants from across the globe, making it the largest hematology event in the...

Medical students and residents often receive limited exposure to hematology during the early stages of their training. A recent national ASH survey found that 42% of U.S. hematology-oncology fellows first considered a career path in the field before...

Hearts of Hematology (HoH) is an anthology of hematology-related stories aimed at capturing the human side of hematology. HoH was first conceived in late 2023 as an ASH Trainee Council effort to make room for the lived experiences that shape our fiel...

An 8-year-old female with sickle cell disease (SCD), hemoglobin SS genotype, global developmental delay, and pica established care shortly after moving from out of state. The patient and her family had been living in a weathered house. The child&rsqu...

A 71-year–old woman with a medical history of Graves’ disease presented to the emergency department after sustaining a mechanical fall with subsequent right-sided hip pain. She denied a head strike, loss of consciousness, bleeding, bruisi...

A 26-year-old man was initially diagnosed with stage IVa diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in 2009, when he presented with persistent symptoms of redness, itching, and double vision in the left eye. Paranasal computed tomography (CT) revealed a m...