For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...

That common belief that your immune system inevitably deteriorates with age might be more myth than reality. While conventional wisdom has long held that immune function naturally declines as we get ...

CHENNAI: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the US, and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan, for their pioneering discoveries on how the ...

Gearing up for a race may affect your immune system, but you can stay healthy with these tips until you arrive at the start ...

As the body ages, so does the immune system. The immune system usually becomes less effective in older age, a process known as immunosenescence. This can increase the risk of: While you can’t prevent ...

Researchers found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines significantly increased survival in lung and skin cancer patients undergoing ...

The short answer: nothing. “That’s a pseudoscience term,” says Laura Purdy, MD, MBA, founder and CEO of Swell Medical.

We tend to zoom in on our immune systems each fall, whether that means getting vaccinated, exploring supplements that may (or may not) support our body's ability to fight viruses, or simply crossing ...

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, ...

Having an mRNA COVID vaccine will not make your body produce new tumour-fighting T cells. What it might do, based on this ...

There’s a lot of truth to the adage “food is medicine.” While medications are certainly important and necessary, there is a direct relationship between diet and immune health. Nutrients both directly ...

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 ...