It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect ...

What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body – and tens of millions of people. While most ...

Why do immune cells that are supposed to eliminate viruses suddenly turn against our own body? There are instances where killer T cells—which are meant to precisely remove virus-infected ...

Building on discoveries from cancer research and the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are decoding the biology behind autoimmune ...

How a woman’s journey with lupus reflects science’s way of tackling the disease - Lupus is one of a rogues’ gallery of ...

You have probably heard that loading up on vitamin C will ward off a cold, or perhaps TikTok has influenced you to take turmeric or some other supplement to supercharge your immune system. The problem ...

Frequent urination is another symptom of a urinary tract infection, per the Mayo Clinic. A UTI can make you feel like you ...

The human immune system is a masterpiece of evolution — powerful enough to fend off millions of potential pathogens every day, yet finely regulated to protect the body’s own tissues. How this balance ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while avoiding attack from the body’s own immune defenses. This innovation could ...

Using medical data from sick patients while they're still at home, traveling in an ambulance and receiving care in the emergency room, researchers at Northeastern have used artificial intelligence to ...

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won this year’s Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning a mechanism that prevents the immune system from harming the body.

In his search to identify the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. floated a shocking theory this week that links infant circumcision and Tylenol use to autism. ...