For millions of Americans, paying for the treatment needed to manage their diseases can become its own lifelong problem. By Carly Stern Karen Mancera ended the phone call in a panic. In July, she was ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made some claims about Americans with chronic diseases that should be challenged with critical thinking. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Analysis ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that infectious diseases capture public attention at the expense of chronic conditions and chronic diseases. “Every kid who has got ...

Aging increases the risks of many chronic diseases, which can negatively affect an individual’s health and quality of life if not properly managed. Therefore, as the proportion of older individuals ...

Among younger American adults, death from chronic disease actually increased — a rarity among high-income countries, a new report shows. By Nina Agrawal Chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer and ...

America is a nation awash in lifestyle diseases, nearly all of which are chronic. From hypertension, which impacts close to half of all adults, to chronic kidney disease, affecting more than one in ...

Among all high-income Western countries, the United States has shown the worst performance in reducing the probability of dying from chronic diseases, a new study finds. From 2010 to 2019, deaths due ...