Herd immunity is important because it defines when a whole community is protected. That includes people who haven't caught the disease, people who had the illness and recovered, and people who got a ...

The immune systems of some people who have not been exposed to the novel coronavirus could have some familiarity with the pathogen -- possibly helping to reduce the severity of illness if that person ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

While you should be eating fatty fish every week to strengthen your immunity (as long as your doctor approves), there are ...

Exercise may be one of the simplest and most effective ways of allowing your body to heal from long-term COVID-19 symptoms. A team of researchers from the United Kingdom has shown that a supervised ...

New research on chronic fatigue may indicate that changes in blood vessels and immune system responses may be behind chronic fatigue syndrome.

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, has re-emerged worldwide and continues to be a major health concern. Caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, this contagious respiratory infection can ...

Barbie Cervoni, MS, RD, CD/N, CDE, is a registered dietitian (RD) and certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES). She has spent most of her career counseling patients with diabetes, ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though the ...

A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important ...