Chronic pain lasts longer for women than men, and new research suggests differences in hormone-regulated immune cells, called monocytes, may help explain why. In a new paper in Science Immunology, ...

Summary: It is a long-documented phenomenon that women experience chronic pain more frequently and for longer durations than men, but the reason why has often been dismissed as subjective. New ...

aResearch Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway bFaculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway cDepartment of ...

MLR may be a useful marker for assessing activity and progression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Patients with CLL had significantly lower MLR values compared to healthy individuals, with ...

Brain macrophages serve diversified niches in the brain to maintain the organ’s homeostasis, and can play pathogenic roles in age-related brain disease. Hoping to one day replace dysfunctional ...

Prize-winning essay for 1927 in the New England Pediatric Society competition open to undergraduates of Class A Medical Schools in New England. A Thesis presented to the School of Medicine in ...

The yellow fever vaccine is one of the most successful vaccines available. After a single dose, it induces long-lasting protective immunity against yellow fever, a severe disease caused by the yellow ...

Following spinal cord injury (SCI), blood-borne monocytes infiltrate the spinal cord, differentiate into macrophages, and dominate the lesion site. Inflammatory responses mediated by macrophages ...