Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD Key Takeaways Inflammation helps your body heal, but if it lasts too long, it can cause ...

Viral immunopathology and fibrogenesis research has revealed that viral infections can instigate long-lasting structural and functional alterations across ...

Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient that helps keep the body working properly. It plays an important role in making red ...

Life expectancy rose from 30 to nearly 80 years as infectious diseases gave way to chronic conditions like heart disease, ...

T cells are an elite fighting force of the immune system, seeking out and destroying diseased cells. But in a prolonged campaign against a chronic condition - like a viral infection, or cancer - the ...

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were untreated wounds and ...

The FDA has approved an allogeneic regulatory T cell immunotherapy for use in matched-donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with blood cancers, to improve survival for chronic ...

Older women with recurrent urinary tract infections are increasingly trapped in a cycle where the very bacteria living in ...

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Lindsay Cook, PharmD is a board-certified consultant pharmacist. Antibiotics like amoxicillin can lead to yeast infections by killing helpful bacteria. Broad-spectrum antibiotics, like amoxicillin, ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...