Each year, approximately 36,000 people are diagnosed with the disease in the United States, according to the American Cancer ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have uncovered how chronic inflammation disrupts the immune system's ability to heal the body, offering new insight into diseases ...

Powerful white blood cells referred to as CD8 killer T cells enable the body to control infections and fight cancer. But when they become exhausted, they can become dysfunctional and ineffective.

A simple blood test might determine which patients are at risk for long COVID, a new study says. Higher levels of leukocytes -- a form of white blood cell -- are associated with more severe symptoms ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...