Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have uncovered a critical mechanism driving inflammation in ...

Immune system disorders in children can involve an underactive, overactive, or misdirected immune response. Main groups include immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases, atopic diseases, and ...

Many of the effects of climate change play out at a very large scale: Heatwaves that grip entire continents. Flooding that submerges vast swaths of island nations and continental coastal areas. Other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, covers health, medicine, wellness and science Ever since the measles vaccine helped eliminate measles ...

Astronauts orbiting the Earth tend to suffer from immune system problems such as infections and the reactivation of dormant viruses, even on short-term spaceflights. That appears to be because a lack ...

Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD, has discovered a link between the intestinal microbiome and developing chronic graft-versus-host ...

In a startling discovery that raises fundamental questions about human behavior, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the immune system directly affects - ...