A key aspect of your immune system is to distinguish “self” from “nonself ” so it can destroy and remove foreign materials ...

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

Immunotherapy is changing how we approach cancer—by using the body’s own defences to attack tumours. It avoids the widespread ...

Your immune system was supposed to protect you from threats, but sometimes it gets confused about what counts as an enemy and starts attacking your own healthy tissues. This internal betrayal happens ...

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that is chronic in nature and tends to confuse us as laymen due to its multi-symptom approach. In contrast to bacterial or viral infections, lupus occurs when the immune ...

Liver cancer cells thrive on fat, posing a serious risk of cancer diagnosis for millions of people living with fatty liver disease. But researchers at McMaster University in collaboration with ...

Signs of immune system aging appear years before rheumatoid arthritis takes hold, offering new hope for early diagnosis and ...

Some of our biggest threats can come in the tiniest forms—viruses and bacteria. Thankfully, we are born with a built-in ...

Researchers have created a novel immunotherapy for metastatic kidney cancer that could provide a new treatment option for ...

Dealing with the itchy, scaly patches that come with psoriasis is difficult enough. But having psoriasis puts you at risk of developing psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory condition that impacts the ...

DOCTOR, WE ARE TALKING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. IT’S AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE THAT CAN OFTEN PRESENT WITH A LOT OF JOINT PAIN AND STIFFNESS. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING WITH MORE IS MERCY MEDICAL ...