At the surface, the immune response to a flu virus is simple. Some cells recognize the pathogen and send a signal to the ...

Titer tests are what's used "to help you determine if you currently have immunity to certain diseases due to past infection or vaccination,” says Dr. Alison Mitzner, a New York board-certified ...

What the shingles vaccine does is it dampens reactivations of latent viruses in a way that may be protecting other parts of your body,” Martin said. Including, it seems, the brain. The measles, mumps ...

Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off.

If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as ...