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From Black Pudding to Transfusions; The Weird and Wonderful World of Blood

Ian Hitchcock

• 25 September 2015
  5.20pm-5.40pm

• York Medical Society (map)

• FREE admission
  No booking required

• Wheelchair accessible

  (through garden)

Event details

You currently have about 30 trillion blood cells in your circulation, supplying your organs with the materials that sustain life. From oxygen-rich red blood cells to white blood cells fighting infection and clot-forming platelets, maintaining the correct cellular balance in blood is an incredibly complex and important process. Indeed, any sustained imbalance in blood cell production can lead to severe effects on human health. In this talk, we will examine at how blood cells are made, and take a microscopic look at the various components of blood and the essential roles they play in health and disease. 

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