Eating the fermented food kimchi daily for 12 weeks may also help improve the immune system, in addition to its gut health ...

Fructose consumption has been found to increase immune cell sensitivity to bacterial toxins, resulting in more pronounced ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a surprising new function for immune cells: preventing excess weight loss.

Buying a variety of vitamins and supplements to make your immune system stronger could be a waste of money. A far cheaper and ...

Buying a variety of vitamins and supplements to make your immune system stronger could be a waste of money. A far cheaper and ...

The yeast Candida albicans colonizes mucosal surfaces and is usually harmless. However, under certain conditions it can cause dangerous infections.

As the immune system weakens with age, researchers have found a way to temporarily boost its function by reprogramming liver cells to support T-cell development.

Once we hit our fifties, many people notice that bouncing back from a cold or shaking off fatigue takes a little longer than it used to. That’s because our immune system naturally changes with age, ...

A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, researchers at Stanford Medicine have found. Manipulating this pathway ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

Not everyone who is infected by a cold virus actually shows symptoms. In fact, people who seem to experience symptoms like a sore throat and stuffy nose more often may actually have more robust immune ...

Antibiotics are powerful treatments that have saved countless lives over the course of decades. New findings from Scripps ...