Andrej Spec, MD, leads the Invasive Fungal Infections Clinic at WashU Medicine, a globally recognized center that treats ...

Injuries can disrupt our physical abilities and our mental and emotional well-being. Facing an injury often feels like more than just managing pain; it challenges our resilience, patience, and ...

The Prison Hill Recreation Area on the city’s southeast side offers 2,500 acres of open space for hiking, trail running, mountain biking, and off-highway vehicle use – the kind of multi-use public ...

It may not be the mythical fountain of youth, but the strength of the body's immune system, or immune resilience, could hold ...

That common belief that your immune system inevitably deteriorates with age might be more myth than reality. While conventional wisdom has long held that immune function naturally declines as we ...

Much like a student needs interaction with various challenges to learn effectively, your immune system requires ongoing exposure to a diverse microbial world to build its defensive capabilities.

Regularly eating a variety of nutritious foods rich in vitamins and minerals, such as citrus fruits, spinach, red peppers, and ginger, may help boost your immune system. While no food can prevent ...

Your lifestyle can affect how well your immune system can protect you from germs, viruses, and chronic illness. Replacing bad health habits with good ones can help keep your immune system healthy.

To guard against a winter rise in respiratory infections, some people “boost” their immune system with supplements and nutrient-rich foods. For a subset, that is in addition to social ...

The 56 year-old Dallasite has common variable immune deficiency, a condition that prevents her immune system from producing ... “It’s clearly not realistic to tell a family with three kids ...

In severe cases, the immune system often goes haywire and causes more problems than it solves. But scientists also see variability in immune responses between people, so they’ve proposed ...

The study shows that the virus manipulates a protein that normally helps regulate which genes should be active in the cell, turning this protein against the immune system. The protein, referred to ...