A new study suggests treatment-resistant depression may be rooted in the immune system. Trauma, stress biology, and mini-brain models reveal a hidden neuroimmune story.

Dr. David Brendel answers the question: 'Depression And The Immune System?' — -- Question: What is the relationship between depression and the immune system? Answer: Depression really has ...

As winter looms on the horizon, so do viruses and bacteria prepared to usher in annual colds and flu. The immune system is the first line of defense against these types of viral infections and ...

What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body — even the brain — and tens of millions of ...

How do viruses do their job of infecting humans? Some of them are experts at evading the immune system so that it won't knock them out. Take hepatitis C, a sneaky and potentially deadly viral ...

HIV doesn’t make you sick immediately. It slowly weakens the immune system. Knowing how it works helps reduce fear, ...

The unleashed immune system can destroy cancer very effectively, but it also can attack healthy organs, with many people (between 10% to 60% depending on drugs and doses) developing damage to the skin ...

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease, which means it occurs when the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues and cells. Treatments that suppress this immune response may help slow depigmentation or ...

Joseph Larkin III receives funding from the Grayson Jockey Research Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, and industry. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself. The discovery of these ...

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person's immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they've quit, a new study found.Video above: ...

In a recent perspective review, researchers attempt to collate and discuss scientific knowledge on the concept of the ‘immune self’ and use raw T cell assays, nine amino-long pathogen-derived peptides ...