Chronic illnesses associated with age and other risk factors—like diabetes, stroke and autoimmune illnesses—have become more ...

Globally, it is estimated that around 10 percent of the world’s population has chronic kidney disease, or over 800 million people. Unfortunately, it is one of the leading causes of death. Many people ...

In fact, depression is one of the most common complications of chronic illness. It's estimated that up to one-third of people with a serious medical condition have symptoms of depression.

People with complex chronic illness may have comorbid depression, anxiety, and exercise intolerance, but these comorbidities aren’t the causes of the complex chronic illness. Clinicians are ...

Severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression are 56% more common in people who have chronic kidney disease compared to those who don’t have it ...

The needs of people with chronic pain are too often left out ... the role chronic pain plays in our national mental health ...