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 ...

Acute and chronic conditions typically differ in how they develop and how long they last. Broadly speaking, acute conditions occur suddenly, have immediate or rapidly developing symptoms, and are ...

About 23,690 new cases of CLL (14,340 in males and 9,350 in females) About 4,460 deaths from CLL ( 2,810 in males and 1,650 in females) CLL accounts for about 1 in 3 new cases of leukemia in the US, ...

Abdominal pain is considered chronic if it lasts for more than three months. The pain may be constant or it can come and go over the three-month period or longer. There are many health conditions, ...

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think ...

I think we’re past the point where I have to explain that chronic pain is not the result of imbalanced humors or a wandering uterus or possession by demons. But for more modern skeptics ...

Causes of a chronic cough, which persists for more than eight weeks, include air pollution, asthma or allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and gastroesophageal reflux disease ...

There has been a significant update of our guidelines. Changes include: publication and ethics standards; article types and their requirements; standards of the Journal’s style guide, including ...