Mucosal surfaces represent a primary interface between the human body and the environment, serving as critical portals for pathogens. Traditional vaccines ...

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New therapeutic 'cocktails' may provide long-lasting relief for treatment-resistant asthma and other immune system inflammatory diseases.

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...

Smith, 55, is further impacted by mastocytosis, a rare condition where the body makes too many mast cells. Mast cells are a ...

Current asthma treatments don't work in all patients, and they don't provide long-term relief from potentially deadly asthma ...

Infants with a diverse diet at age 9 months were less likely to develop food allergy by age 18 months, especially if they had a history of eczema, according to a study published by Pediatric Allergy ...

Spring officially starts on March 20, but warm weather and blooming flowers usually come early in Arizona. Here's how you ...

The study showed that medicine used to help asthma patients for more than 20 years could lessen or prevent acute allergic ...

New research found that supplementing maternal diet with α-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E, can reduce the development of food allergy and anaphylaxis in newborn mice.   The prevalence of food allergy ...

What you eat can play a role in how well your immune system functions. There is some evidence that these herbs and spices may ...

Jax Bari, an 11-year-old from Philadelphia, shows me a photo of himself. It's hard to look at; in it, he's sprawled out on ...