When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

Systemic inflammation has been elevated to a modifiable cardiovascular risk factor requiring assessment, monitoring, and modification, based on consensus recommendations.

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

The class of anti-inflammatory drugs known as TNF-inhibitors has brought relief to many sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis, ...

Inflammation hasto fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this ...

Inflammation can feel like a small storm inside your body. It brings heat, swelling, and pain as the immune system rushes to ...

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

Aging immune cells may be sabotaging the body from within. Researchers found that macrophages produce a protein that locks ...

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have ...

“Simply put, an anti-inflammatory diet focuses on foods to help reduce chronic inflammation in the body,” says registered dietitian Marisa Moore. Moore goes on to note that chronic inflammation is ...

Pair the right foods, and your body can fight inflammation more effectively than ever.