It’s ah-choo much for the body to handle. Viral infections like the flu and COVID-19 can “awaken” dormant breast cancer cells hiding in the lungs, paving the way for deadly metastatic disease, a new ...

A newly discovered natural compound sourced from a fungus that's historically only been found lodged on trees in Taiwan has been heralded for its pharmaceutical potential, effectively blocking ...

A disturbing pattern has emerged in Cleveland’s immigration court, one that threatens to undermine a cornerstone of American justice, and Today in Ohio wonders where the trend spreads next. Recent ...

Polluted air may be quietly hurting your brain. New research links traffic fumes and soot to a greater chance of developing dementia. Credit: Shutterstock Breathing polluted air might be doing more ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), and Utrecht University have found what they suggest is the first direct ...

People are breathing in significantly greater amounts of microplastics each day than previously understood, a new study suggests. The research, published Wednesday in PLOS One, found that people ...

1 The Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China 2 Emergency and Critical Care Center, ICU, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital (Affiliated People’s ...

Add a comment + Open annotations. The current annotation count on this page is being calculated. Exposure to a common fungal molecule can reprogram immune cells in the lungs, causing them to overreact ...

DENVER — Yordan Alvarez’s recent setback was due to “inflammation” and not an ongoing issue with the fracture he previously sustained in his right hand, the Houston Astros said Thursday. Alvarez ...

A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can ...

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