Two complementary studies reveal how an insufficient supply of energy in macrophages, key immune cells in artery walls, ...

Background The likelihood of HIV acquisition is increased following forced vaginal sex. This relates in part to ...

Heart attacks that strike in the middle of the night appear to inflict less damage on the heart than those that hit during ...

Scientists had observed that heart attacks at night time tend to be less threatening than those during daytime.

Melbourne researchers will lead the first international study to investigate if tiny fragments of plastics can end up in ...

A rare tick-borne allergy linked to red meat has now been confirmed as deadly for the first time. A healthy New Jersey man collapsed and died hours after eating beef, with later testing revealing a ...

Controlling immune cells' internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found.

Scientists at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research are making strides in controlling the severe inflammation that is the hallmark of sepsis. This severe condition occurs when ...

Results open the door to therapies based on chronobiology, the branch of biology that studies how living organisms structure their physiological processes in time.

Published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the study is one of the first to harness the circadian rhythms of the immune system to modulate inflammation without compromising defense against inf ...

Doctors say the complication is normally mild and eases on its own without treatment. In severe cases, however, it can cause hospitalization or death, although officials say no fatalities from the ...