It is hard to recover from an infection, and even more so if your immunity is not at its best. Although the medications are ...

One prevalent myth is that natural infection is enough to achieve herd immunity, making vaccination unnecessary. While ...

Salk immunologists discover Prozac, an SSRI and one of the most prescribed drugs, protects against sepsis, wherein the body's ...

Researchers say study provides sufficient rationale to further explore the therapeutic uses of SSRIs during infection.

Another study found that Prozac-also known as fluoxetine-was effective in protecting mice against sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which the body's immune system overreacts to an infection ...

Khatri, Ph.D., a faculty member in the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and the Department of Medicine, says if a patient's sepsis is caused by a bacterial infection ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute studying a mouse model of sepsis uncovered how the SSRI fluoxetine can regulate the immune system and defend against infectious disease, and found that this ...