Your food choices can not only improve your resistance to illnesses; research suggests that adding certain foods to your diet ...

Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at Radboud University are figuring out how that works. Their recent study showed how stress changes behavior by ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both ...

Taking these steps can help your body fight off germs that cause ailments like the common cold.

And Powles adds: "Regular exercise can help your immune system work more efficiently by improving circulation and helping ...

The Department of Health and Human Services referred Duke University School of Medicine to the Justice Department, alleging race and race-related proxies influenced admissions decisions. Duke disputes ...

A preliminary study of 52,330 Israeli women found similar rates of heart attack, stroke, blood clots and early death among hormone therapy users and nonusers, though it cannot prove safety. Older ...

New research reveals how stress during pregnancy may alter the placenta's immune activity and influence important processes ...

A protein made by stressed cancer cells helps lung and pancreatic tumors evade the immune system, a new study shows. Led by researchers from NYU Langone Health, the work found that new drugs designed ...

One of the clearest patterns to emerge was that women experience more dramatic shifts in their immune systems as they age.