Chronic Illness Articles
Little is understood about what’s behind increasing ADHD rates in reproductive-age women, thus more research is needed to clarify how medicines to treat the disorder will affect them and their unborn children.
Typically treated with supportive care, this common human infection usually resolves in weeks with some symptoms persisting for months.
Despite education and intervention efforts, suicide rates are at a global all-time high. As surviving loved ones suffer, public health officials struggle to find solutions to a problem that is both pervasive and complex.
Findings from Grifols’ Phase IIb Alzheimer Management by Albumin Replacement (AMBAR) clinical trial found long-term plasmapheresis with albumin replacement reduced disease progression in a prespecified subset of patients with AD of moderate severity.
Until more is discovered about the causes of autoimmune disorders, these chronic but sometimes fatal disorders will continue to increase in numbers of diseases and individuals affected.
The right-to-die movement advocating the passage of state legislation to allow medical aid in dying is gaining momentum.
Private and public healthcare challenges grow as an aging population grapples with the ramifications of increasing numbers of HIV-positive senior citizens.
Central pain syndrome affects several million people worldwide, yet this condition wasn’t fully understood until recently, and there are still many challenges concerning diagnosis and treatment.
Studies are shedding light on this long-misunderstood and devastating condition that may soon have approved treatments to help prolong cancer patients’ lives.
As the number of cancer cases continues to rise, scientists are bringing to light exciting discoveries that are being used to create targeted therapies to treat and, it is hoped, to eventually cure cancer.
A physician diagnoses the condition and either treats it or refers the patient to someone else for treatment. End of story. Or is that just the beginning of the story? Narrative medicine challenges the medical model by bringing a new tool to the table: the story of the patient.
