Your body is an incredible machine with countless parts working together to keep you healthy. While you’re probably familiar with the superstars — heart, lungs, brain — there’s an underappreciated ...

Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human malaria parasite, mostly outside sub-Saharan Africa, and responsible for millions of clinical cases yearly, including severe disease and death.

The spleen is a fragile organ that plays an important role in maintaining internal energy, good digestion and stable body weight. The spleen is a fragile organ that plays an important role in ...

A new role for marginal zone B lymphocytes has been discovered: enhancing inflammatory responses to bacterial lipopolysaccharides. These findings broaden understanding of marginal zone B cell function ...

Toronto researchers have discovered that the spleen plays a key role in the proliferation of cancer cells in leukemia. The finding may help explain how leukemia and other cancers spread and provide ...

Scientists are uncovering clues to what might be unfolding in the relationship between the brain and immune system in those who suffer from long-term repercussions of stress. New research details ...

You’re reaching for tissues again, canceling plans for the third time this winter, and wondering why you seem to catch every cold that makes its rounds through your office. You eat your veggies, try ...

Although we can survive without a spleen, evidence continues to mount that this abdominal organ plays a more valuable role in our physiological defenses than previously suspected. The spleen holds a ...

Last month, we reviewed basic information about the dog spleen function and touched on a few disease problems. That information was based on what some call Western medicine which focuses on anatomy, ...

Tsukuba, Japan - The inability to adequately respond to infection can cause a whole-body state of inflammation known as sepsis. This can eventually lead to systemic inflammatory response syndrome ...