Dear Doctors: You hear a lot about inflammation these days and how it’s bad for your health, but isn’t it also part of how your immune system protects you and keeps you healthy? At this point, I’m not ...

Inflammation is a symptom that your patients may have questions about. You’re likely to start by explaining how inflammation could be the result of infection or an injury. Chronic inflammation, ...

Q: You hear a lot about inflammation these days and how it's bad for your health, but isn't it also part of how your immune system protects you and keeps you healthy? At this point, I'm not sure I ...

The buzzy term gets blamed for many diseases. But it isn’t all bad. Credit...Pete Gamlen Supported by By Nina Agrawal Illustrations by Pete Gamlen Inflammation has become a bit of a dirty word. We ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown mechanism that may drive tissue damage and a new target for drug discovery. Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and ...

Two in five patients with heart failure (HF) have high inflammatory risk, with a similar prevalence across the spectrum of ...

“If you cut yourself and the wound gets infected, it’ll become inflamed. There’s a reason for that: The inflammation brings in all the white blood cells that help you fight the infection,” says Eric ...