It starts with a sneeze. Someone on the subway didn't cover their mouth and now a cloud of invisible invaders hangs in the ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

Cancer scientists have been working against the clock for decades to outsmart a disease that comes back more powerfully after ...

The immune system serves as the body’s sophisticated defense network, constantly working to protect against harmful pathogens. Understanding how to strengthen this natural shield is crucial for ...

The human immune system, a complex defense mechanism, includes the skin as its first line of defense and possesses a memory ...

Without antibiotics, getting an infection would generally be a much scarier threat. But there is such a thing as taking too many. We asked Arik Alper, MD, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Yale ...

Rochester, Minn. — The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing so. However, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that ...

The immune system serves as the body’s primary defense against illness, making its maintenance crucial for overall health. While basic practices like hand washing and balanced nutrition form the ...

Trinity College Dublin scientists showed that electrical stimulation reprograms macrophages to reduce inflammation and boost healing. This breakthrough could lead to broad therapeutic uses.

A research team from Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, has made a groundbreaking discovery about how the body's first immune defense, neutrophils, orchestrate ...

Scientists have developed a smarter way to activate the immune system against cancer, potentially making treatments safer and ...