By the time you graduate medical school, you should have a handle on these chronic diseases, as you’ll likely encounter them ...

For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people ...

While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the body's defences are unable to ...

Anemia of chronic disease is caused by long-term underlying ... and high rates of red blood cell destruction may all cause anemia. Sometimes, the chemotherapy used to treat certain cancers ...

To truly reverse the development of chronic disease, we have to start in childhood ... I worry, however, that all of his pseudoscience, the criticism of antidepressants and weight-loss medications ...

Sam Runyon, a nurse, treats Cora Perkins at home in Williamson, W.Va. All of her patients have at least one chronic disease.Credit... Supported by By Eli Saslow Photographs by Erin Schaff Sam ...