Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

The American Lung Association and the Indiana Department of Health congratulate the winners of the 2025 Indiana Radon Poster contest. The annual contest raises awareness of radon gas, the leading ...

Alia Rabadi of Yonkers, a Maria Regina High School student, pictured above, was among a select group of 10 young artists from ...

Today we consider the value of public broadcasting. PBS' latest "Masterpiece" and Emmy contender "Wolf Hall," is worth voters’ support in more ways than one ...

In celiac disease, the consumption of gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, barley, and some other grains and food products, causes the immune system to erroneously attack the intestine. This leads to ...

The study didn’t stop there. The researchers also wanted to see if SSRIs could improve the effects of existing cancer treatments. The experts combined an SSRI with an immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) ...

Vaccines which help prime the body's immune system to stop cancers returning are already here. The next step will be to develop personalised vaccines for people at high genetic risk of cancer to ...

The results suggest that immune system activity is not just a side effect of ADHD, but may play an active role in shaping the disorder—or be shaped by it in turn. Looking ahead, the researchers ...

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 ...

The innate immune system acts quickly and non-specifically to detect and fight infections; the slower, adaptive immune response recognizes and targets specific pathogens. “Classically, what ...

The scientists wanted to better understand how the immune system responds to metastasis, because when individual cancer cells break away from their originating tumour and spread to another part of ...

Traditional antigen-specific immune tolerance (ASIT) strategies are not fully specific and do not address the root cause of the disease. Instead, they train the immune system to recognize antigens ...