Category Archives: Immune System

More colds when it's cold? Yale says it's true, colds thrive in cold noses

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More colds when it's cold? Yale says it's true, colds thrive in cold noses

NEW HAVEN >> It's really true that we catch colds more often in winter — because our colder noses lower our immune system's ability to fight off the …
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Amazing Health Benefits Of Drinking Hot Chocolate

In addition to carrying oxygen, iron helps make red blood cells and is essential for your immune system. Manganese is a component of enzymes that …
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Staying healthy over the holidays

SO IT IS YOU KNOW, INEXPENSIVE, EASY TO DO AND IT WILL BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IN A GREAT WAY AND KEEP YOU HEALTHY.
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Red Wings taking precautions against NHL mumps outbreak

“We're going to provide it for everybody and, in the meantime, we're going to be encouraging everyone to do what they can for their immune system.”.
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Antibiotics and Immunity: Health Risks of Routine Use

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Antibiotics and Immunity: Health Risks of Routine Use

Our immune system evolved to prevent and resolve most routine infections without any external assistance. Yet the prevalence of antibiotics in our …
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Hyperbiotics Introduces Advanced Immune System Formula, this Season's Secret Weapon for …

5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Hyperbiotics today announced a groundbreaking immune system formula, a first-time combination that enhances immune …
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The super-spreaders: one in five are responsible for the majority of viral infections

Reasons that have been put forward include immune system deficiencies in these individuals and possibly a greater virulence of the pathogen.
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HIV May Be Evolving Into A Less Deadly and Less Virulent Form

A new paper from Oxford University suggests the disease is becoming less deadly and less infectious over time as it adapts to our immune system and …
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Personalized vaccines could change how we fight cancer

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Personalized vaccines could change how we fight cancer

Scientists are a step closer to treating cancer patients with personalized vaccines that spur the immune system to attack malignant tumors.
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Injectable 3D vaccines could fight cancer and infectious diseases

This microscope image shows many of the immune system's dendritic cells that were collected from a 3D scaffold three days after in vivo injection.
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Detox with flavored water

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Helping your body rid itself of toxins can be complicated and involved or very, very simple.  For simple – try this

Detox with flavored waterLemons/limes: They flush out toxins from your digestive system and have … Oranges: They stimulate the immune system and aid in healthy blood …
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Testing, treatment, triumph over allergiesAllergies are an abnormal reaction of the immune system. Those with allergies have an immune system which reacts to what we think of as harmless …
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Adding CSF to Ipilimumab Improves Survival in Melanoma

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Adding CSF to Ipilimumab Improves Survival in Melanoma

The researchers likened the immune stimulation activity of this factor to … this with ipilimumab's action of releasing of brakes on the immune system.
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Poor eating habits have long-term effects on immune system

This change in function occurs largely because poor eating habits alter the way genes express themselves, including genes related to immunity.
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High Alcohol Consumption Associated with an Increased Risk of Human Papillomavirus Infection …

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Now really. Is anyone surprised at today’s lead story?  This rings true on so many levels. Alcohol and our tendency towards over consumption is never – I repeat never – a good thing and yet we ignore the many problems it creates.
High Alcohol Consumption Associated with an Increased Risk of Human Papillomavirus Infection …Studies have shown that even moderate amounts of alcohol can adversely affect the immune system. “Our findings provide additional support to …
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Give it a shot: Flu vaccines are more accessible then ever despite some concernsHowever, people whose immune systems are severely compromised — chemotherapy patients, or those who just received a bone marrow transplant, …
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Simple test at birth saves baby from ravaging disease

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Simple test at birth saves baby from ravaging disease

SEATTLE–Two babies in our state were born with an immune system disorder, within months of each other. One died after simply catching a cold.
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Prolonged fasting 're-boots' immune system

The team believes the findings could benefit people with immune system damage, for example if they have received chemotherapy treatment for …
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Pasteurized, unpasteurized juices — what's the difference?

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Pasteurized, unpasteurized juices — what's the difference?

Children, the elderly, and people who have significant health problems, or those whose immune systems are weakened, risk serious illness or even …
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Meet a Game Changer Award finalist that's taking aim at HIV

What vaccines essentially do is stimulate the immune system and then disappear. If someone is infected later on, it's like they've been infected for a …
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Technique to model infections shows why live vaccines may be most effective

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Technique to model infections shows why live vaccines may be most effective

This allows the researchers to track how each bacterial population replicates and spreads between organs or is killed by the immune system.
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Spontaneous cancer remission rare, but worth study

Or did the patients do something special to harness the awesome power of the immune system? Studying these exceptional people, however, …
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Good news in advances of immunotheraphy

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Good news in advances of immunotheraphy

In some diseases — cancer, for example — the immune system appears ineffective in eliminating the “foreign” cancer cells. Immunotherapy is an …
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Resetting the immune system back 500 million years

The thymus is an organ of paramount importance to the adaptive immune system, but in this particular instance, the thymus produced not only T cells, …
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