which work together to fight off infections and diseases. But how much do you know about it? When you understand everything that your immune system does for you and how everyday things affect it ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Sweden have determined how children's immune systems react ... The results might explain why children do not ...

To keep us alive in the face of this onslaught, the intestinal immune system must be constantly on the lookout ... As a potential mechanism to explain this difference, they found that infection nearly ...

This idea is backed by research: several studies in Europe suggest early exposure to germs does not guard against ... looked ...

Hard work. Persistence ... body better cope with stress is perhaps the most impressive thing it does for the immune system. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, Internist, Emory School of Medicine ...

Often, though, the immune system gets a slow start, which gives the pathogen time to multiply and wreak havoc. What a vaccine does is expose the immune system to a less-threatening version of a ...

Researchers have determined how children's immune systems react to different kinds ... Immunotherapy not suited to children The results might explain why children do not benefit from ...