Fire smoke appears to affect the immune system on a cellular level, researchers report in the journal Nature Medicine. People ...

Wildfires have been raging along the West Coast and in Canada for most of the spring and summer. For some U.S. residents, ...

Let’s be honest — no one likes getting sick. Whether it’s a stubborn cold that won’t quit, a surprise bout of the flu, or ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, published today in ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against pathogens and foreign substances. An essential component ...

At first glance, some people seem to have recovered from COVID-19. They no longer test positive and can return to work or ...

The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful ...

Smoke from wildfires and structural fires doesn t just irritate lungs it actually changes your immune system. Harvard ...

An immunocompromised woman’s cat stirred up a lot more trouble than usual (for a cat). In a recent case report, doctors ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

Research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds new evidence that such molecules can influence behavior during illness.