When we talk about gut health, the conversation usually centers around the microbiome itself, which foods feed beneficial ...

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven, together with international collaborators, have discovered that blocking autophagy—the body's natural recycling system for worn-out cell components—in specialized ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the lining of the joints (the synovium), causing pain, swelling, and progressive damage.

Researchers studying ageing in mice have found that a decline in chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a cellular recycling process, helps “zombie cells” accumulate by weakening the immune system’s ...

Eating an anti-inflammatory diet offers multiple benefits in the fight against metabolic syndrome and may even be able to reverse it.

For the first time in a human trial, a class of drugs known as sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, already ...

Aging immune cells may be sabotaging the body from within. Researchers found that macrophages produce a protein that locks them into a chronic inflammatory state, making infections like sepsis more ...

In neuroinflammatory diseases, systemic (blood-borne) leukocytes invade the central nervous system (CNS) and lead to tissue damage. A causal relationship between neuroinflammatory diseases and ...

Prolonged immune signaling can switch from fighting cancer to helping tumors grow by triggering changes that suppress the immune attack.

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Missed pediatric visits rose most for Spanish-speaking Chicago families after Operation Midway Blitz, new hospital data presented at AAP shows. South Dakota Lands $7.2 Million for Ambulance ...