Immune System

How your child's immune system works and four ways prebiotics can give it a boost

What manifests as a simple cold or fever and eventually clear up is actually the result of a full-fledged war in your child’s body. The war between their immune system and the invading bacteria or virus

Human bodies respond to infections differently depending on the time of day

The reason for this is our body clock, and the fact that each cell in the body, including our immune cells, can tell what time of day it is.

Why you should get a COVID-19 vaccine, even after you’ve recovered from coronavirus?

Not everyone develops immunity after the infection - nine percent didn't have detectable antibodies, seven percent didn't have T cells that recognize the virus.

People over the age of 65 are more likely to suffer from COVID-19 reinfections

While initial infection with Covid-19 is more likely to bestow 80 percent protection from reinfection to those under 65 years of age.

Do COVID-19 vaccines provide protection to organ transplant recipients as well?

A report states that transplant recipients may fare better after the second dose but prior studies show the first shot is enough to kickstart antibody production.

Ebola survivor infected years ago may have started new outbreak in Guinea, claim researchers

The survivor harboured the virus for at least five years and then transmitted it via semen to a sex partner, researchers reported in articles published in Science and Stat. Until now, the longest the ebola virus had been known to persist in a survivor was 500 days

COVID-19 immunity lasts for six months, longer after infection finds new study

The immune system creates memory B cells that recognise the virus and unleash a new round of antibodies when encountered the next time.

Why are we afraid of fevers? Treating a fever with medicines affects the immune system too

Fever acts to mobilize multiple arms on the immune system, helping many of them work at their peak capacity.

Derived from an Amazonian frog, Kambo is catching on as an alt-wellness wonder drug

Kambo is catching on among the same crowd of coastal New Age elites — Burning Man psychonauts, Silicon Valley disrupters, plant-medicine proselytes — that rallied around ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic rainforest tea, a decade ago

Caught in deadly race with new COVID strain, Britain 'gambles' with mix-and-match vaccine regimen

Scientists have slammed the new guidance which allows for the interchange of vaccines, if the second dose of the vaccine originally received is not available, saying officials have abandoned science and are just trying to 'guess their way out of a mess'