Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Covid treatment gaps highlight persistent health care challenges

Millions of Americans don't have easy access to facilities that dispense oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19, according to a new Yale study. In some parts of the country, researchers found, people have to travel 30 minutes ...

Medical research

When the body's B cell training grounds stay open after hours

If B cells are the munitions factories of the immune system, manufacturing antibodies to neutralize harmful pathogens, then the tiny biological structures known as germinal centers are its weapons-development facilities. ...

Immunology

How antibody therapy affects the breadth of COVID mRNA vaccines

Nearly three years into the pandemic, many of us now carry antibodies against the virus—due to an infection or two, a few doses of mRNA vaccine, or a round of monoclonal-antibody treatment. But not all immune responses ...

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