I have always been fascinated by the human immune system and how it fights infections like TB, as described in Harold Shryock and Mervyn Hardinge's three-volume book, Your Health and You. The ...

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have uncovered a key mechanism that helps the body switch off inflammation – a ...

A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an ...

When a T cell encounters a cell carrying pieces of a virus or bacteria, the two form a tight contact point known as an immune ...

A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an international team of ...

The head of the Department of Health and Human Services has spent decades promoting vaccine skepticism and has now revamped the US childhood immunization schedule to have one-third fewer recommended ...

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More than 100 people in South Carolina have been struck by highly contagious measles in the past week, health officials have ...

One of the big debates in long COVID research is whether the virus can persist in the body, or whether it leaves the immune ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB ...