Node Smith, ND Unexpected findings show that the body’s own immune system destroys retinal cells Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Glaucoma, a disease that afflicts nearly 70 million people [...]

Node Smith, ND A recent study may be changing the way in which the medical community looks at how strenuous exercise affects the immune system. Researchers from the Department of Health at the [...]

Node Smith, ND Brain Connected to the Immune System through Lymphatic Vessels A research team from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shown that the brain is directly connected to [...]

Carrie Decker, ND Vis Medicatrix Naturae Active Hexose Correlated Compound Although the naming of the phenomenon of autoimmune disease is simple and reflects a self-triggered immune response, [...]

Fiona McCulloch, BSc, RAc ND The immune system is divided into 2 segments – the innate and the adaptive immune system. These 2 arms work together synergistically to protect the host from [...]

Anne Williams, ND, LAc Though mechanisms have been provided for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), a clear pathoetiology has evaded this diagnosis. Excess mast-cell activation, [...]

Amanda Hegnauer, ND To discuss the importance of how food allergies or autoimmunity are influenced by the immune system, one must have a basic understanding of the system itself. The immune [...]

Bradley Bush, ND As students of the nervous system, neurologists are master conventional diagnosticians. Some continue training and become neurosurgeons. Major neurological conditions and [...]

Walter J. Crinnion, ND The rates of allergy, asthma, and autoimmunity have been increasing worldwide for the last few decades. Various theories have been proposed to account for this alarming [...]

Virender Sodhi, MD (Ayurved), ND Ayurvedic medicine has delineated rejuvenation and virilification as a branch of medicine where the main objectives are to maintain health as age advances and to [...]