More than 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease accounts for the majority of cases. Despite ...
Gaseous pollutants from traffic sources add to evidence for particulate-matter harms ...
The immune cells that protect the brain can also destroy it. In Alzheimer’s disease, microglia, the brain’s resident defenders, lock into a state of chronic activation around amyloid plaques, pumping ...
Chronic oral inflammation may impair female fertility by triggering a systemic immune response that affects the ovaries.
Researchers discovered that chronic inflammation fundamentally remodels the bone marrow, allowing mutated stem cell clones to quietly gain dominance with age. Reprogrammed stromal cells and interferon ...
Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and eliminate harmful threats. One of its most powerful defense mechanisms is the complement system—a group of proteins that ...
Long-term (chronic) inflammation in your body has been linked with several types of cancer, in addition to other serious conditions. One recent study found that 20% of cancer-related deaths were ...
Chronic inflammation has been one of the most heavily researched topics in the health world in recent years, with doctors ...
There are two types of inflammation: acute and chronic. Acute inflammation is the kind that lasts a few hours, days, or weeks, and it’s helpful to healing. It’s your immune system’s response when ...