Inflammation keeps people alive, but when it fails to switch off, it quietly drives pain, disability, and organ damage.

Doctors explain.

New research is shedding light on surprising ways to reduce chronic inflammation—including suggestions as simple as flossing ...

These easy dinners can help reduce chronic inflammation. I try to start most mornings with a short run on the treadmill and/or a leisurely dog walk around the neighborhood before I power through the ...

Inflammation has a bad rap, both as an agent of pain and a risk factor for chronic illnesses like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Even the word itself sounds like something is going up in ...

My patient’s lungs were filled with blood, and he lay intubated in an ICU bed. His kidneys were failing, too. The cause of his illness was not a mystery: He had been previously diagnosed with an ...

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 ...

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have ...