In recent years, the increase in knowledge about the functioning of the immune system has revealed not only its importance in the defense against external agents such as pathogens or toxins, but also ...

A new study has shed light on why patients with certain rare immune disorders develop severe, food-triggered allergic reactions while others with similar diagnoses do not. The findings, published in ...

A new study from researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides fresh insight into how pancreatic cancer may ...

Researchers used health administrative data from the province of Ontario, Canada, to assess the association between immune-mediated GI disease and the subsequent development of an eating disorder in ...

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell Medicine, and other institutions have uncovered a key biological explanation for why eczema so often starts in ...

Your immune system may be weak if you have frequent, severe, or extended infections. Learn more signs of a weak immune system.

Mpox vaccination significantly reduces disease severity compared with no vaccination, although protection may wane 2 years after the last dose.

A genetics‑guided drug, compound 6, targets CARD9 to subtly calm gut inflammation in Crohn’s disease, pointing to safer, longer‑lasting, precision treatments.

Nika Beamon thought she was going to die. The former college athlete always played high-impact sports. Rugby, ice hockey, you name it. Always knocked down but toughing it out. By the time she was a ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are ...

A Hailey family is asking the community for help finding a bone marrow donor for their daughter, Charlie Everson, who was ...

Patients with major depressive disorder and patients with inflammatory skin diseases like atopic dermatitis share similar immune abnormalities, notably in the Th2 pathway, according to a study ...