Researchers found an association between increased activity in a reward region of the brain—primarily stimulated by hopeful thinking—and heightened levels of protective antibodies after receiving a va ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

Vaccines boost the immune system's ability to fight off diseases. Vaccines undergo rigorous testing to ensure safety and effectiveness. Widespread vaccination contributes to herd immunity, protecting ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Think of vaccines as a personal trainer for a particular sport (disease). They train your immune system how to ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health threats we face today. It's often blamed on the overuse of antibiotics, and for a good reason. But there's another major factor quietly driving this ...

Scientists have uncovered a promising new way to enhance the effectiveness of vaccines by tapping into the potential of a specific type of immune cell, opening the door to long-lasting vaccines for ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago. By Apoorva Mandavilli It’s an idea as popular as it is incorrect: American babies ...

While vaccines and antibiotics are important medicines, in some cases, one might make the other less effective. That's according to a study in Nature that found babies exposed to antibiotics in the ...

"We did not find any indication for a weaker immune response, rather the contrary," said Katharina Kocher, one of the leading authors of the study Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She ...

COVID-19 vaccines have been key to controlling the pandemic, but researchers in Germany report on one man who took the vaccination message to the extreme. The subject of the research published in ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health ...