The AB positive or RH negative are among the rarest known blood groups. Also extremely rare is another kind of blood group called ‘Bombay Phenotype or Bombay Blood Group’, about which few blood banks ...

In a recent discovery in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, a cancer patient with a blood type known as para-Bombay phenotype was found. This blood type, rarer than the "Panda Blood" ...

The 'Bombay blood group' was first discovered by Dr Y M Bhende in Mumbai in 1952. The ‘Bombay blood group’ – a rare blood type, has been at the centre of attention from the last two weeks in Mumbai’s ...

Bengaluru hospitals face critical challenges sourcing the rare Bombay blood type due to scarcity and difficulties in ...

Wajahat Ayaz’s only daughter, Afifa, is thalassaemiac and needs two packs of blood every month. But she has much bigger problems unlike other patients with the disease. The seven-year-old girl’s blood ...

Rourkela: In a remarkable display of co-ordination, a unit of the rare Bombay Phenotype Rh-negative blood group was transported from Mumbai to Rourkela for a pregnant woman facing delivery ...

People forgetting or being uncertain about their blood type is far from scarce, but it almost cost a 50-year-old woman from Nantou County her life were it not for a timely blood test. Chiu Li-kuei ...

COIMBATORE: In a rare coincidence, two women admitted to the gynaecology ward in the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) have been identified with Bombay Blood group. Pandiammal, a 47-year-old ...

Dr Hedgewar Blood Bank recently detected a father-son duo in the city with Para Bombay blood group, a rarest phenotype generally present in about 0.0004% (about four per million) of the population. In ...