Browsing: disease

Celebrities including Bella Hadid, Justin Bieber and Miranda Hart have talked about their years-long struggles with the effects of Lyme disease, but despite rising rates and…

She is animated now, in full lecture mode. Patients, she says, should have access to therapists and trainers as soon as they’re diagnosed with Parkinson’s, not…

October 8, 20253 min readAnnual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior ImmunityA new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced…

Some types of T cells (pictured, artificially coloured) kill infected cells, but others help to suppress inflammation. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryThe class of immune cells…

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…

For years, the Guardian north of England editor, Josh Halliday, had a secret, unknown even to his friends: that for more than a decade, his father…

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has avoided meetings with top health officials, even as deadly…

Milly’s chronic fatigue illness, outlined by her father, Patrick Barkham, is heartbreaking (As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How…

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.…

On a sweltering afternoon in Head Muhammad Wala, a riverside village near the Pakistani city of Multan, Rubina Nawaz is nursing a sick child in a…