Category: 5. Health

Immunity is orchestrated by two responses referred to as the innate and adaptive immune systems. Each system works to minimize and clear infections. The innate immune response is a broad-targeting defense network of immune cells that actively survey the body….

New heart health recommendations emphasize early testing and treatment to lower cholesterol levels as key to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. 

A group of 11 medical associations including the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released…

Certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) are closely linked to invasive cervical cancer.  Vaccines that protect against these cancer-causing HPV types have been shown to greatly lower the risk of cervical cancer.  As a result, the quadrivalent HPV…

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are very common–the vast majority of adults are thought to have been infected at some point. But there has also been mounting evidence that EBV is connected to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic…

It’s long been thought that an organ known as the thymus is crucial to development of the immune system. Early in life, it ensures diversity among immune cells called T cells that fight pathogens and cancers. But it’s been assumed that the thymus then…

Molly O’Shea has been practicing pediatrics for 33 years. “I’ve seen it all,” she says. Her career spans the introduction of numerous vaccines, a decline in infectious diseases — and a troubling rise in vaccine hesitancy.

When, in January, the Trump administration slashed…

Cancer dysregulates the immune response to evade cell death and progress throughout the body. As tumors become established, they uptake nutrients and generate a low-oxygen environment, which limits nutrients in the tissue for other cells. Consequently, the…

Drugs and different treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a specific disease can be repurposed for other pathologies. The application of applying FDA-approved drugs to other diseases has become common for various reasons…

When vaccines are designed, scientists have aimed to prevent the virus from spreading to others, or stop it from producing more flu particles in an infected person. But now researchers think a vaccine could do both. In a new strategy, scientists looked at…

The immune system has two separate responses, which are orchestrated to optimize protection against pathogens. The first response is known as innate immunity. This first wave of protection provides broad defense against a wide range of foreign invaders….