immunity
These are the foods to eat to avoid colds and flu this winter
Celebrity nutritionist Gabriela Peacock, who counts Joan Collins and Jodie Kidd among her clients, reveals the hero foods your body needs.
How to look after your immune system as the weather changes
A doctor tells Lisa Salmon what you need to do to reduce the changeable weather’s damaging impact on your immune system.
UK Government urged to reflect as legacy Bill fails to pass before recess
The Bill would give immunity from prosecution for Troubles-related offences to people who co-operated with a truth recovery body.
Northern Ireland Legacy Bill ‘difficult and challenging’ legislation, says peer
Lord Caine also described the immunity element of the Bill as ‘contentious’.
MPs overturn attempts to remove immunity clause from Troubles legacy Bill
MPs voted 292 to 200, majority 92, to disagree with the change to the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill.
Heaton-Harris: Legacy Bill will finally provide answers for many Troubles families
The British Government’s proposed Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill will return to the Commons on Tuesday.
Commonly used sweetener has ‘unexpected effect on immune system’, say scientists
Consuming a high amount of sucralose lowered the activation of T cells – a type of white blood cell – in mice, researchers found.
Skipping breakfast may be bad for the immune system – study
The findings could lead to a better understanding of how chronic fasting may affect the body in the long term.
How sharks could hold key to our immunity
THEY have a fearsome reputation, but could sharks soon be helping to save many more human lives than the 10 or so they take each year? Over 400 million years of evolution, sharks' immune systems have developed into finely-tuned defences, much more precise than humans' and which are capable of seeing off almost any dangerous virus or life-threatening tumour.
£1.5m funding for research into why Covid jabs work better in some than others
The findings will be ‘essential’ in concluding who is most at risk post-jab and for vaccine developers in designing boosters.