Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a progressive loss of renal function that lasts for more than 3 months, and is classified according to the degree of kidney damage – measured by the ...

Frieden was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009-2017. Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to “Make America Healthy Again” gets some things ...

Chronic bronchitis is one of the two main types of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD). The other is emphysema. Most people with COPD have symptoms of both conditions. In chronic bronchitis, ...

He was able to return quickly and finished out the game without any noticeable effect. Landing on his knee like this could cause a patella contusion, prepatellar bursitis, or more severely, a PCL ...

Chronic kidney failure, or end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), occurs when the kidneys no longer function effectively and cannot filter waste and extra fluid from the body. It is the fifth and final ...

Another way to understand this secret is through the lens of chronic or toxic shame. If there is shame in your life, you are more likely to have anxiety or depression issues. Or, to put it another ...

This is particularly true for chronic diseases. For example, diabetes mellitus is defined biochemically according to the blood sugar concentration, cancer histologically according to the morphological ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) often develops very slowly. You might need little or no treatment. Although it is not usually curable, the disease can be under control for many years. But CLL can ...

According to the review paper “Chronic Hip Pain in Adults: Current Knowledge and Future Prospective ... (1) There are many causes of this issue, but almost 10 years of working with clients as a ...

An exclusive survey of over 4,000 adults aged 16-75 for BBC News, carried out by research company Ipsos, suggests that a quarter of people in the UK are living with chronic pain - an often hidden ...

A majority of bursitis cases clear up within a few weeks. Bursitis can be broken down into two types based on duration: acute (which means it lasts for a short period and then resolves) and chronic ...