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The article (‘A potential treasure trove’: World Health Organization to explore benefits of traditional medicines, 20 December) is of great interest. However, it is regrettable that…

Donald Trump and nine major pharmaceutical companies on Friday announced deals that will slash the prices of their medicines for the government’s Medicaid program and for…

‘Vitamin C is important for your health in lots of ways,” says Daniel M Davis, the head of life sciences at Imperial College London. It is…

National Institutes of Health competitive grant funding In the past decade, the National Institutes of Health awarded top scientists $9 billion in competitive grants each year,…

The use of pangolin parts in traditional Chinese medicine is driving poaching of the small, scaly mammals, according to an analysis of legal records.The Environmental Investigation…

Nobel Prizes, COVID Vaccine Updates and Malnutrition in GazaThe CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of…

There is, allegedly, a commonly held belief among landscape architects familiar with New York City: for Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the designers of both…

Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi identified regulatory T cells, which help to keep the immune system in check.Credit: F. Ramsdell, Institute for Systems Biology,…

This story has been updated.The human immune system is our body’s primary line of defense against harmful microbes, viruses and other invaders—but that defense line can…

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for their work on how the immune system is prevented from attacking…