When someone gets a bad infection, the body's immune system rushes in to fight the germs. But sometimes this defense system ...

A new study traces the molecular pathway connecting the gut immune system to the brain during a parasitic infection, ...

Your immune system is like an incredibly sophisticated security team, constantly patrolling your body for threats and neutralizing them before they can cause harm. When it’s working properly, this ...

A Dr. Christine Seroogy, associate professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a pediatrician and immunologist at UW Health: The immune system is a ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections and cancers in check. A growing body of research now shows that chronic ...

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a ...

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is urging me to devour the lot. I can hear my mum – and medical friends at university – insisting that ...

As the temperature drops and sniffles start making their rounds, we’re all thinking about ways to strengthen our immunity: vitamin C, hand sanitizer, maybe a flu shot. But while you’re focused on ...