News tagged with immunology

Study of cytokines could lead to new treatment for people with asthma, food allergies

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology have made an important new discovery about how a particular molecule could improve lung function for people with asthma and food ...

OM85 appears to boost babies' immune systems and protects them from serious lung infections

Babies who get bad lung infections are at higher risk of developing asthma later on, a condition that affects 10% of Australian kids and costs Australia A$28 billion a year.

Is the omicron variant Mother Nature's way of vaccinating the masses and curbing the pandemic?

Healing skin ischemia-reperfusion injuries with interleukin-36 receptor antagonists

Ischemia, which in modern Latin means, "staunching of blood," is a medical condition in which the blood supply is cut off to different parts of the body. In patients who are bed-ridden, ischemia can manifest as pressure ulcers. ...

COVID-19 immunity in young Swedish adults investigated

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have analyzed the presence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies and memory cells of the immune system in young adults. The results, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical ...

Study finds that lung maintains long-term memory of COVID infection

After infection with SARS-CoV-2, where does the immune system store the memory to provide long-term protection against reinfection?

Common moles could serve as players in battling melanoma and preventing its recurrence

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that a subset of white blood cells known as CD4+ T cells reside naturally in moles on the body and could be activated as part of a novel strategy to treat melanoma ...

Food allergy training, action plans suggested for schools, day care

(HealthDay)—Schools and day care centers should implement allergy training and action plans and have unassigned epinephrine autoinjectors for use, but site-wide food prohibitions are not suggested for allergy management, ...

Bone marrow disorder nearly 10 times more common in those with venom allergy

Researchers at Michigan Medicine found that people with venom allergies are much more likely to suffer mastocytosis, a bone marrow disorder that causes higher risk of fatal reactions.

Updated advice for safe COVID-19 vaccination in people with high-risk allergy histories

At the end of 2020, experts led by allergists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) examined all information related to possible allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations. Now the team has published updated insights based ...