For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

Viruses possess a formidable ability to enter our cells to multiply there, thus triggering diseases. However, a team from ...

New research shows feverish temperatures make it more difficult for viruses to hijack our cells. A mouse study suggests it's the heat itself that... Fever helps the body fight off viruses: But how ...