They’ll ask about your symptoms and see if your face is unusually red. A few different tests can help determine if you have polycythemia vera. Blood tests. Blood tests can check if your red ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a type of blood cancer where ... despite not experiencing other symptoms. PV is considered a type of blood cancer due to the abnormal production of red blood cells.

When you have polycythemia vera, your body makes too many red blood ... You also have options to manage your symptoms. A low dose of aspirin can protect you from clots. Your doctor will tell ...

and had severe COVID-19 symptoms. Experts do not have enough information to say for sure whether there is a link between polycythemia vera and increased COVID-19 mortality. People with PV that has ...

CHICAGO -- The use of the investigational weekly subcutaneous injection rusfertide significantly reduced the need for ...

Just like any chronic health condition, polycythemia vera (PV) can have a negative impact on your everyday life. Research has shown that PV is associated with a lower quality of life in measures ...

Emerging treatments focus on reducing phlebotomy frequency and improving symptoms, though disease-modifying options are still lacking. Although polycythemia vera management remains focused on ...

Rusfertide (Protagonist Therapeutics/Takeda Pharmaceuticals) — administered as a once-weekly subcutaneous injection — also ...

panelist discusses how polycythemia vera (PV) treatment approaches include both therapeutic phlebotomy and medications like hydroxyurea or interferon to control blood counts, with treatment selection ...

In the VERIFY study, rusfertide significantly improved clinical responses vs placebo in polycythemia vera, offering a ...

The novel drug reduces the need for burdensome phlebotomy and also addresses fatigue, thereby improving quality of life for ...

Adding rusfertide to standard of care more than doubled the share of patients with polycythemia vera (PV) who did not meet ...