Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. SARS-CoV-2's infection sites are well known in the airways and other parts of the body, but new ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

Recent findings suggest that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is involved in both causing multiple sclerosis (MS) and shaping its ...

Flu symptoms are often dismissed, but some warning signs should never be ignored. Learning to listen to your body protects ...

Yes, infections can cause anaemia in many ways. Infections can lead to inflammation of your body or parts of it, thanks to your body’s immune response. Then your body releases factors that can block ...

We see many people in our clinic with newly acquired tattoos and body piercings and are having a difficult time discerning if the artwork or jewelry is infected or just going through a "normal" ...

Researchers have used a method of total-body imaging to measure and track the body’s immune response to viral infection. The method is a promising platform for studying human immunity in greater ...

Scientists from UC Davis have utilized dynamic total-body positron emission tomography (PET) to capture the immune response of the human body to COVID-19 infection in recovering patients. The study ...

Two men were left riddled with parasitic worms after they received infected kidney transplants at two U.S. hospitals, a new case report reveals. The two kidneys had come from the same organ donor, who ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their collective health. Researchers at the Institute of ...