People with Sweet’s syndrome often wake up with a fever, body aches, and blisters on their neck, limbs and face. Also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, it is an inflammatory skin disease marked by severe symptoms and elevated counts of wh…
A few easy-to-implement tools—a training video, electronic health record prompts and handouts for families—greatly increased how often pediatricians recommended early peanut introduction to infants, reports a new clinical study led by Northwestern Univ…
A research team has determined that severe obesity causes the lungs to age faster. The team was led by Prof. Dr. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek from the “ImmunoSensation2” Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn and the Institute for Molecular Medicine…
A Wayne State University study published in Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes long-term, sex-specific changes to a baby’s immune system, particularly affecting the frontline immune cells that fight infection.
Results from a randomized clinical trial published in Pediatrics show that pediatricians who received targeted educational and clinical decision-support tools were significantly more likely to advise parents to introduce peanut-containing foods early—a…
Immune cells called double negative T cells are abundant in the intestine but have been poorly understood till date. In a recent study, researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo report that these cells actually have an indispensable role in suppr…
A new way to treat asthma symptoms and even repair previously irreversible lung damage could be on the horizon following the discovery of a potential new therapeutic target by scientists at the Universities of Aberdeen and Manchester.
Researchers at the University of Granada and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have developed a luminescent probe, called GLed, capable of measuring the activity of the immune system in real time and with unprecedented accuracy.
When a patient enters the emergency department in critical condition, doctors must quickly run through a crucial list of questions: Does the patient have an infection? If so, is it bacterial or viral? Do they require treatment? Can the patient recover …
Instead of stabbing yourself, or someone else, in the thigh with a needle to deliver a dose of adrenaline to counter anaphylactic shock, would it not be easier to use a nasal spray instead?
