If you are one of the 50 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, you’ve likely experienced the frustration of trying to treat a problem that has no clear cause. You may even have been told that ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...

Chronic liver disease develops from long-term liver damage over months to years. The most common causes are viral hepatitis and chronically high alcohol consumption. Chronic liver disease is the ...

This Research Topic is Volume II of a series. The previous volume, which has attracted over 21k views can be found here:Transforming Chronic Disease ...

Schlesinger is a physician-scientist and professor, president, and CEO of Texas Biomedical Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization in San Antonio, Texas. The connection between infection ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

The proposed "Nutrition info box" would show customers whether products have low, medium or high levels of saturated fat, ...

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Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective ...