By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD In a new experiment, scientists used virtual reality to show that the brain can sense virtual ...

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response. The sneezing, itchy ...

There are evolutionary reasons why the immune system may have evolved to overreact in this way (panic attacks are another ...

Air pollution is a global health concern, with over 90% of the world's population breathing air that exceeds World Health Organization safety standards.

The Yale-developed "prime and spike" vaccine approach jumpstarts immune response in the respiratory system — the first part of the body infected by COVID-19.

Novavax's combo and standalone flu shots triggered a 2.4–5.7x rise in immune response over baseline in seniors. Over 98% of adverse events were mild or moderate in Novavax's Phase 3 trial of ...