In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research ...

Crohn's disease is an inflammatory condition of the digestive tract that continues to puzzle medical professionals. What it has to do with Alzheimer's, the symptoms it presents, and the best treatment ...

Going to the doctor is already tricky enough for people with chronic symptoms of Lyme disease. Their concerns often dismissed by mainstream medicine, those patients now face an additional hurdle: ...

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For Jennifer Gowans, a patient ambassador for the American Kidney Fund, helping others is her go-to coping strategy for life with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Are you like me, a member of a rotten club neither of us wants to be in? That is the chronic disease club — those of us who have some kind of underlying illness that, while it might vary in its ...

Living with a chronic medical condition is a circumstance that is very close to my own heart. I have lived with a chronic illness my entire adult life, and I'm not alone. According to the Centers for ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. All health is local, down to neighborhoods that ...

Exercise is one of the most effective treatments for chronic, disabling joint conditions such as osteoarthritis ...