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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 ...

A Nature Medicine study links the activation of brain reward pathways to stronger antibody responses after hepatitis B vaccination in healthy adults.

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

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

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

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 ...

As the temperature drops and sniffles start making their rounds, we’re all thinking about ways to strengthen our immunity: vitamin C, hand sanitizer, maybe a flu shot. But while you’re focused on ...

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 ...

Nipah virus does not just infect the body, it disrupts immune defences at multiple levels, suppressing early antiviral responses and triggering harmful inflammation.