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.

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 ...

Inflammation keeps people alive, but when it fails to switch off, it quietly drives pain, disability, and organ damage.

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

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

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 ...

Inflammation plays a key role in the body's defense against pathogens, forming part of a complex series of events that help maintain organ function and systemic balance. While acute inflammation is ...

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