Inflammation: part hero, part villain

Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 09:50 in Health & Medicine

For many years, inflammation was considered one of medicine’s chief enemies. Experts viewed it as a side effect of illness and injury, a negative byproduct of the body’s efforts to heal. One managed and banished it whenever possible. That view has undergone a major reassessment over the last decade. Inflammation, it turns out, isn’t always […]

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