Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, as well as pain, which occur when shingles affects the eye, according to ...

It’s normal to lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day. But it can be upsetting when you notice more hair loss than this, bald ...

A group of scientists say it's time to think differently about how to define and treat diseases such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis.

A new study explores the role of dysfunctioning mitochondria and a disrupted gut microbiome as a possible trigger of Crohn's ...

Severe flu infections can lead to a range of deadly complications, especially in people whose immune systems are compromised by age or disease.

In one of the case reports, a 75-year-old White man with hereditary coagulopathy presented with myasthenic crisis in the setting of acute pulmonary embolism. Chronic symptoms included diplopia, ptosis ...

Living drugs like these are costly. By using donor cells, the new study hints we might be able to mass produce them in the ...

Immune cells called monocytes produce a key inflammatory protein called interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) through an unconventional ...

Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system ...

Distinct immune "signatures" in patients who develop adverse events while taking immunotherapy for cancer may help oncologists identify patients at risk and treat them early to prevent serious side ...