Whenever there is a wound or infection, the body produces an inflammatory response. This is the body's first line of defense, ...

A protein long understood to drive inflammation by producing nitric oxide has a second, previously unknown role—it physically ...

Aaron Zamzow urges firefighters to recognize how their job prompts their body's immune system to stay on high alert and cause ...

If you’re in your 40s, 50s or 60s and watching inflammatory markers creep up, the idea of managing inflammation through food rather than another prescription is appealing. But you’ve also been around ...

VIENNA — Exposure to indoor air pollution may contribute to inflammation and autonomic nervous system dysfunction in patients with congestive heart failure who spend a lot of time inside, according to ...

The role of central obesity as a predictor of cardiovascular disease has not been fully understood, but a recent analysis from the Jackson Heart Study has provided some answers. Szu-Han Chen, medical ...

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Every week, I hear the following in my office: “Doctor, I feel like my whole body is inflamed.” There is a common misconception about inflammation that, when clarified, can help guide intervention ...

If there’s one food that I can’t get enough of, it’s yogurt—especially Greek. I eat it most mornings before yoga or strength training, usually paired with berries, a collagen supplement, and a pinch ...

Eli Lilly has been scouting for drugs to follow the trail blazed by its blockbuster cardiometabolic medicines. Its latest pipeline-building deal has the pharmaceutical company paying $100 million for ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

Chronic inflammation is both a driver and suppressor of cancer depending on context. Key players-NF-κB, IL-6, STAT3, TAMs, MDSCs, and Tregs-orchestrate a tumor-permissive microenvironment.