Surely, inflammation is half a billion years old, since even the lowly starfish may experience it. Virtually every human being who ever lived has suffered from it, perhaps dozens or hundreds of times.

When the bacterium Helicobacter pylori infects the stomach, it causes gastric inflammation and increases the risk of stomach cancer. Researchers have been able to elucidate characteristic changes ...

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Close up detail of a young girl and her grandfather with their faces pressed close together. This article is part of a series on recent advances in the science and medicine of longevity. When we are ...

Immune system overreactions may be the true culprit of cardiac illness—and lifesaving drugs can calm them down ...

Stem cell biologist Hugo Vankelecom (KU Leuven) and his colleagues have discovered that the pituitary gland in mice ages as the result of an age-related form of chronic inflammation. It may be ...

Inflammation is a process that doctors and researchers have learned a great deal more about in recent years, with one thing becoming clear: Inflammation plays a role in almost every chronic health ...

Plus, the easy tweaks to help reverse it.

Can a nasal spray reverse brain aging? A new study shows that intranasal extracellular vesicles can clear brain fog, recharge mitochondria, and improve memory.