What if instead of temporarily relieving your allergies with medication, you could train your immune system to stop overreacting to your allergens altogether? That's the idea behind ...

How Does Opdualag Work for Advanced Melanoma? Some cancer cells have what are called checkpoint proteins on their surface. The immune cells in our body also have proteins on their surface. When these ...

Allergy immunotherapy is a long-term treatment for chronic allergies that reduces sensitivity to allergens (substances that cause an allergic reaction) by gradually exposing the immune system to doses ...

What factors influence the success or failure of immunotherapy treatment in patients with advanced bladder cancer? Why do ...

Dr Allison: One of the most exciting realizations in recent years is that a fraction of patients who have received these immunotherapies can actually be cured. A good example is ipilimumab (Yervoy®), ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide. In recent years, immunotherapies—treatments that ...

Keytruda is not chemotherapy. It’s a type of treatment called immunotherapy. It works with the body’s immune system, helping T cells fight cancer cells. With immunotherapy, the body’s immune system ...

Dr. David A. Braun delved into the molecular factors which drive exceptional responses to immunotherapy in metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Dr. David A. Braun sat down for an interview with ...

In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Bridget Adcock, MD, an internal medicine resident at the Cleveland Clinic, discusses her poster presentation of a retrospective cohort study examining whether ...

About half of all implanted embryos will not lead to a pregnancy. Most losses are preclinical, and the clinical pregnancy loss rate is around 20%. [1] Although the rate depends on age, most early ...

The research, conducted by scientists from the Doherty Institute, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, and Monash University, ...