Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney ...

Scarring is a key feature of chronic kidney disease. Now, University of Connecticut researchers report in Kidney ...

Chronic liver disease develops from long-term liver damage over months to years. The most common causes are viral hepatitis and chronically high alcohol consumption. Chronic liver disease is the ...

Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective ...

Experts discuss how lifestyle medicine and nutrition can be used to reduce chronic disease and improve patient outcomes.

A person with anemia of chronic disease has decreased red blood cells despite having “normal” or increased iron stores in their body. It can occur in people with underlying inflammatory conditions, ...

Crohn disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that requires long-term medical and surgical management to improve quality of life.

Healthcare is very complex but very much interconnected. In my last column, I discussed why it is imperative that pharmaceutical companies overhaul their research and development (R&D) approach, and ...