Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What comes first — inflammation or disease? When the body is in an inflammatory state, it can start to destroy the very things it ...

Inflammation in your body is a response to an illness, injury, or a foreign body invasion like germs and chemicals. While it is a normal and important process that allows your body to heal, recurrent ...

Cardiologists are using a blood test that’s been around for decades, in a new way, to predict heart problems. Cardiologists are using a blood test that’s been around for decades, in a new way, to ...

A psychiatrist says one common blood test may reveal whether inflammation is playing a role in depression—and what you can do ...

A routine blood test that measures a patient's inflammation levels could improve the early diagnosis and management of a wide range of debilitating autoimmune diseases. The systemic inflammation index ...

As inflammation is the body's natural immune response to disease or infection, it increases blood flow in the body and helps the body's cells to defend themselves against viruses, infections or cell ...

Many people suffer with silent inflammation without even knowing it. Here are the bodily signals worth paying attention to before it gets chronic.

Why do our ankles swell when they’re sprained or does our skin turn red — or inflamed — when it’s scraped? That quick response is caused by inflammation — and it can save your life. At its core, ...

Cardiologists are using a blood test that’s been around for decades, in a new way, to predict heart problems. The measure of inflammation is now considered just as important as measuring cholesterol.