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Our brain and attention may change how our immune system responds to inflammation
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 8, 2026 Source:Focusing your attention may help your brain fight inflammation, study suggests Reference:Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans
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Development of microchip antibody testing against viral proteins has streamlined the ability to test efficacy of immune response.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 19, 2025 Source:Breakthrough microchip reveals how your body fights viruses—in just 90 minutes Reference:Microfluidics combined with electron microscopy for rapid and high-throughput mapping of antibody–viral glycoprotein complexes
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Researchers seek to understand why vaccine responses vary from person to person
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 9, 2022 Source:Researchers seek to understand why vaccine responses vary from person to person Reference:Pan-vaccine analysis reveals innate immune endotypes predictive of antibody responses to vaccination
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We are not seeing ‘waning immunity’ in fully vaccinated people to date. Some require the 3rd dose specific medical or medication reasons. The intricacies of our immune system are astounding and fascinating. #vaccineswork
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 14, 2021 Source:What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity
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Much ado about coffee (another observational study about it, please make it stop) with apologies to the Bard. Let’s move on to a more relevant study that shows mRNA vaccines produce long-term persistent immunity. #VaccinesWork
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 29, 2021 Source:Drinking any coffee reduces the risk of liver disease, study findsPfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds Reference:All coffee types decrease the risk of adverse clinical outcomes in chronic liver disease: a UK Biobank studySARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines induce persistent human germinal centre responses