Why are older people more susceptible to infections than younger people? Why do vaccinations sometimes have less of an effect ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...

The link between these diseases is immunity, and loss of immune functions may explain the age-associated incidence of such diseases by reduced immunosurveillance, polyfunctionality or regulation.

Developing effective treatments and understanding how the mechanism of the immune system have always been ... exactly how these cells interact during disease and treatment. In a study recently ...

Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a lung disease characterized by granulomas ... "It's not a hammer; it's not overly suppressing the immune system. It's just nudging the immune system in a certain ...

Now, a new study demonstrates a proof of concept for ... is tolerated by the immune system, it may not be rejected in a modified form designed to treat Parkinson's disease. "Botox has been used ...

At the turn of the century, the major preoccupation of the pediatrician was infectious diseases ... How close this was to the modern concept that the immune complex fixes complement, which ...

Experts said there’s no conclusive evidence that a measles infection boosts a person’s immune system later in life against cancer, heart disease or atopic diseases. Several studies show that a ...

Diseases such as covid-19 and influenza can be fatal due to an overreaction of the body’s immune system called a cytokine storm. Cytokines are small proteins released by many different cells in ...

Although surgery, chemotherapy and radiation remain the mainstay of most cancer treatments, there is also another powerful tool: a patient’s own immune system. Since the 1990s, immune stimulants ...