Secondary infections caused by bacteria or viruses during hospital care remain a long-standing global challenge, despite ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of ...

Lesser known complication from the measles virus deserves attention, according to retired pediatrician: it can erase immune memory ...

Colorectal cancer has long baffled scientists because, unlike most tumors, patients often do better when their cancers are ...

Cancer treatment has made great progress over the past few decades, but many solid tumors remain very difficult to treat.

Throughout a person's lifetime, the cells lining the respiratory tract are exposed to inhaled pollutants, including cigarette ...

Vitamin C and vitamin D both support immune function in different ways, but neither will prevent you from getting sick on their own. Vitamin C may slightly shorten colds, while vitamin D deficiency ...

Getting enough sleep can help protect you from getting sick. “Sleep is critically important to maintaining a healthy immune system, so we need to sleep enough. We also need to have good timing of our ...

A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers has received a $40,000 Ride Cincinnati grant to study a delayed release preparation, or wafer, of an immunostimulatory ...