The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing ...

The secret to staying safe this germ-prone season is having a healthy immune system.

As you age, your immune system is supposed to slow down. It becomes less able to fight off infections, less effective at ...

The CDC specifically recommends washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, or the amount of time it ...

New research has found that just 15 minutes of exercise can improve your immune function. Short bursts of physical activity increase production of natural killer (NK) cells, which are a type of ...

Researching the immune system in space could have payoffs for human aging on earth. Scientists have revealed how the lack of gravity affects the cells of the immune system at single cell resolution.