Facts About Your Immune System
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Modern Living & Our Immune System
By Kathleen MacNaughton , Health Expert...allergies and allergic asthma are all disorders of the immune system. Our immune system is... Read more »
Stop Allergies... With Smoking?
By Kathleen MacNaughton , Health Expert...avoid tobacco smoke? It seems that smoking represses the immune system. And since a hyperactive... Read more »
Puppies may protect against allergies
By Sloane Miller , Health Expert...has simply become too clean, meaning that babies' immune systems are not exposed to enough germs... Read more »
Staying Healthy During Cold and Flu Season: Is it Possible?
By Sloane Miller , Health Expert...germs; we need to be exposed to them in order for our immune system to work against them.... Read more »
The Link Between Acid Reflux and Asthma Discovered
By Tracy Davenport , Health Expert...stomach fluid, then changes were made in the mice's immune systems that appear to be associated... Read more »
Health Guide
New Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis
...discuss Rituxan, a medication which targets B lymphocytes. B lymphocytes are cells of the adaptive immune system which express cell surface receptors which can cause cells to react against... Read more »Cockroach Allergies
...where they stay inside because of safety concerns. What Causes the Allergic Reaction? The job of immune system cells is to find foreign substances such as viruses and bacteria and get rid of... Read more »Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Causes
...blood pressure Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) Iron deficiency anemia A number of studies have found immune system irregularities in chronic fatigue syndrome patients. A particularly promising... Read more »Fatigue: Rheumatoid Arthritis's Inconvenient Truth Comic
Read the full text of Fatigue: RA's Inconvenient Truth and leave a comment! See all of Sara's Comics Visit The Single Gal's Guide to Rheumatoid Arthritis Read more »Beyond 'I'm a Diabetic', Little Common Ground
...much candy?” I about fell over. Annie is a small-boned, almost scrawny kid. “No, she didn’t. Her immune system attacked her pancreas and now she doesn’t produce insulin,” I snapped as we... Read more »Images
Medications
... condition in which the body's defense system (immune system) fails to recognize the body... Read more »
...corticosteroid hormone (glucocorticoid). It decreases your immune system's response to various... Read more »
...these conditions, the body's defense system (immune system) attacks healthy tissues.... Read more »
...corticosteroid hormone (glucocorticoid). It decreases your immune system's response to... Read more »
...MS, but it is thought to help by preventing your immune system from attacking the nerves in your... Read more »
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Immune System May Reject Stem Cells
August 21, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research strikes down the idea that the immune system is blind to the presence of foreign embryonic stem cells. Researchers... Read summary »
Diabetes Drug May Transform Cancer Treatments
June 16, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? A popular anti-diabetic drug can improve the immune system and increase the effectiveness of vaccines and cancer treatments.... Read summary »
Stem Cells: Healing Chronic Skin Problem
January 19, 2007DURHAM, N.C. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- While many people dread working out, Julian Smith cherishes every step he takes. "It's just really hard for... Read summary »
Prostate Cancer Breakthrough
May 05, 2008DALLAS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Today's doctor's visit is one Bruce Tower didn't know he'd be able make. "Anytime you hear the 'C word,' it's... Read summary »
More Peanut Butter, Please!
May 21, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If you're one of the 1.5 million people in the United States suffering from a peanut allergy, there's good news. Experts... Read summary »
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