For decades, aging has looked like an unavoidable slide into frailty, driven in part by an immune system that slowly loses ...

Invisible particles in the air are not just irritating our lungs, they are quietly rewiring the immune system that is ...

While the fabled fountain of youth may not actually exist, a new type of therapy now does.

As we age, the immune system gradually declines in function, leaving the body more vulnerable to disease. Scientists have ...

Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...

Salmon, love it or hate it, it is one of the few foods that provides vitamin D. Vitamin D plays a significant role in ...

Researchers highlight how exercise and dietary strategies may complement immunotherapy by improving immune function, tumour perfusion, and quality of life.

Conventional wisdom has held for some time that children who grow up in environments rich with biodiversity—farms, homes with pets, rural settings in general—are less likely to have allergies. The ...

A Vitamin A byproduct could weaken the immune system's cancer-fighting ability, according to new Princeton University ...

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 ...