Trained immunity in alveolar macrophages can lead to damaging lung inflammation, confirming the importance of context in this phenomenon.

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) It’s understood that inflammation is behind RA, a disease in which the body’s immune system attacks joints and tissues, causing stiffness and pain.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and ...