Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

The researchers discovered that STING, an immune molecule meant to protect the brain, may actually be making things worse as ...

Infections in the brain can have serious consequences and are often fatal. The immune defense system works differently here ...

Microglia replacement therapy helps treat people with a rare genetic condition called ALSP, suggesting the approach could ...

A groundbreaking study of nearly 45,000 people shows how a blood test measuring proteins can estimate which organs are aging ...

Meningitis can be a frightening diagnosis. Our expert guide breaks down the different types—bacterial, viral, and fungal—and ...

The study, published March 6 in Nature Medicine, shows that the brain’s immune cells, called microglia, play a more powerful ...

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have discovered that a virus that has flown under the radar for years might be a ...

Participants with the fastest-ageing brains were 12 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than contemporaries with brains about 10 years younger, according to the research. Having an ...

Just as infection signals imbalance in Western medicine, in te ao Māori it indicates a deeper disharmony that requires ...

Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was ...