Inflammation can feel like a small storm inside your body. It brings heat, swelling, and pain as the immune system rushes to ...

Inflammation keeps people alive, but when it fails to switch off, it quietly drives pain, disability, and organ damage.

Inflammation hasto fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this ...

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Aging immune cells may be sabotaging the body from within. Researchers found that macrophages produce a protein that locks ...

New research is shedding light on surprising ways to reduce chronic inflammation—including suggestions as simple as flossing ...

The buzzy term gets blamed for many diseases. But it isn’t all bad. Credit...Pete Gamlen Supported by By Nina Agrawal Illustrations by Pete Gamlen Inflammation has become a bit of a dirty word. We ...

Inflammation plays a key role in the body's defense against pathogens, forming part of a complex series of events that help maintain organ function and systemic balance. While acute inflammation is ...

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have ...