For anyone who treats haematological malignancies, myeloma is a challenging disease to tackle. It remains incurable with a relapsing-remitting patter…

A 39 year old male presented to A&E with shortness of breath, the patient had been feeling lethargic, generally unwell and short of breath for several…

Our blood carries so much all over our body. It is truly a reflection of how well or how badly we are doing. Doctors everywhere…

In this Blood Academy video, you will learn about the structure of the Royal College of Pathology, FRCPath Haematology exams. We also speak to 5…

It is typical for the blood smear morphology of patients to be affected significantly when they are presenting with severe viral infection due to the …

COVID-19, a disease caused by a virus SARS-CoV-2, was first detected in patients in Wuhan China in November 2019. Since then SARS-CoV-2 has been detected…

The ‘Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists’ (FRCPath) is a stringent set of examinations, structured into two parts, designed to test and ensure…

FRCPath Haematology Examinations explained The ‘Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists’ (FRCPath) are a stringent set of examinations, structured into two parts, designed…

In the background are eosinophils, increased myeloid precursors and increased small lymphocytes and plasma cells.  Cell A is a binucleate Reed‐Sternberg (RS) cells but can…

I’ve just finished my second year studying Biomedical Science at Cardiff University and here’s a little about my experience so far. Biomedical Science is a…

The worm like trypomastigote form has a slender form with a central nucleus and large kinetoplast (circular DNA inside a large mitochondrian) Curved, usually S…

Here is a nice example of metastatic disease, specifically prostate cancer in the bone marrow You can appreciate the clumping of cells typical of non-haematopoeitic…

This was a case of Plasmodium Vivax although Ovale is also a good call: A. Trophozite – often multiply infected with large chromatin dots B.…

The images show intact malignant B-ALL cells penetrating normal megakaryocytes  What is emperipolesis? It is the active penetration of one haematopoietic cell by another cell,…

The FRCPath, or ‘Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists’, is a recognised postgraduate qualification in the field of pathology (including haematology) consisting of…