Scientist and Immunologist Dr. Shruti Naik answers the internet's burning questions about our immune systems. Are viruses alive? Is chicken soup actually good for the immune system? What does the ...

When a patient enters the emergency department in critical condition, doctors must quickly run through a crucial list of ...

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Without antibiotics, getting an infection would generally be a much scarier threat. But there is such a thing as taking too many. We asked Arik Alper, MD, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Yale ...

Scientists have uncovered how a key type of immune cell adapts its behavior depending on the type of infection, paving the ...

Repatha works by blocking a specific enzyme in your liver to help your body remove cholesterol more effectively. It is not an immunosuppressant drug, so it doesn’t work by suppressing the immune ...

UCLA researchers have uncovered a link between "morning sickness" symptoms and the body's natural, but complex, inflammatory ...