Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have developed a new systematic review to summarize for neurologists and other clinicians the evidence for epidural steroid injections and whether they reduce pain and ...

Chronic pharyngitis—also known as a chronic sore throat or persistent sore throat—is a sore throat that lasts several weeks or longer (sometimes 12 weeks or more). It can also occur as a sore throat ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear in testimony before the Senate this week that if confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, his focus would be on chronic diseases over infectious ones.

A spirometry test is one way to distinguish the type of lung disease. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are both long-term lung conditions. They’re part of a disorder known as chronic obstructive ...

Fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), are chronic conditions that have similar symptoms. Both cause extreme tiredness, which could ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, said he will prioritize preventing chronic disease, shifting funding from vaccine and infectious ...

About chronic pain, resources to manage chronic pain, what we're doing to help people living with pain.

Our understanding of pain, and especially chronic pain, is far behind where it should be. We don’t know what causes a person with an injury to develop chronic pain, or why it happens in some ...

Fibrosis has a key role in the progression of kidney disease and kidney failure. Here, the authors examine current options for targeting pro-fibrotic pathways, including the anti-fibrotic ...

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules with myriad functions. For the bacterium, those chemical compounds ...