Gastrointestinal diseases can be functional, affecting how the GI tract works, or structural, involving physical changes or problems. Examples of functional GI diseases include IBS and functional ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says chronic diseases affect three in four adults and account for ...

Comorbidities are health conditions that occur alongside a primary diagnosis. Shared risk factors can lead to both stroke and heart attack happening in the same person. Having one autoimmune disease ...

All stages of the fossil-fuel life cycle are a threat to human health, yet global overdependence on fossil fuel continues unabated, despite ambitious international agreements to lower greenhouse-gas ...

This story is a textbook example of a splicing mechanism that can be targeted to treat an otherwise fatal disease in children. The hope is to understand many more splicing mechanisms and find new ways ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Heart disease is a group of conditions that affect the cardiovascular system, which includes the heart and blood vessels. The early signs and symptoms of heart disease can vary depending on the type a ...

Zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, have posed a growing public health threat for decades. However, existing institutional arrangements have fallen short. The ...

J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center We are at a transitional moment in how disease control efforts are structured in middle-income countries ...