What happens if your immune system attacks your brain?

Autoimmune encephalitis is when your immune system begins to rampage against your own brain. It’s one of the most ...
The Washington Post

How can I boost my immune system as I age? Here’s what the science says.

I’ve noticed I’m getting more colds as I get older. What can I do to give my immune system a boost? Like the rest of your body, your immune system ages, too. This contributes to higher rates of ...
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Smoking’s effects on the immune system can last years, study finds

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person’s immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they’ve quit, a new study found. Although ...

She Was Born Without an Immune System. Gene Therapy Saved Her Life.

Born in Morristown, N.J., with virtually no immune system, Cora was diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare ...
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

What happens when your immune system hijacks your brain

My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain.