Crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis. You may have heard these names during the commercial breaks of your favorite show. If so, you’ve heard of the most common forms of a group of medical conditions ...

A blood test measuring inflammation is now being used by cardiologists to predict heart problems, alongside traditional cholesterol tests.

Can pollution cause it? What about inflammation? And how do tumors spread? Here’s what scientists are learning about this complex disease. By Nina Agrawal Every day, billions of cells in our body ...

There are two types of inflammation: acute and chronic. Acute inflammation is the kind that lasts a few hours, days, or weeks, and it’s helpful to healing. It’s your immune system’s response when ...

Inflammation sits at the heart of everything from sprained ankles to heart disease, yet medicine has long struggled to switch it off without blunting the immune system entirely. Now scientists have ...

Some evidence suggests that the Mediterranean diet and other dietary plans can help reduce inflammation. As such, these diets may help some people with managing back pain. The Mediterranean diet is an ...