Why chronic pain is now a young person’s problem as tech, food, and stress turn youthful bodies into battlegrounds of inflammation and fatigue.

Although health anxiety is a normal response to chronic illness, it can become debilitating. Learn how to identify and treat ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open underscores a critical yet often overlooked reality: Chronic pain and ...

In An Exercise in Uncertainty, Jon Gluck traces decades of waiting, watching, enduring experimental treatment, and ...

A child living with a chronic illness faces many challenges. Many children learn to cope, live with, and manage their chronic illness. However, if a child is experiencing deeper emotional ...

About 20% of American adults live with chronic pain — and many of them are more likely to develop mental health issues like depression, anxiety and substance use disorders. Many people with ...

Finally, on March 10, 2021, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. A child life specialist for more than 10 years, Jones is ...

For Jennifer Gowans, a patient ambassador for the American Kidney Fund, helping others is her go-to coping strategy for life with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease ...

Living with chronic illness in the family is hard ... Different factors affect how families (and their members) cope with illness. If the family culture is largely closed to outsiders, the ...

Just 48 hours later, I was in tears. Hours of driving had aggravated my chronic illness. I was exhausted and in agonizing pain. After several days of recovery, I altered the rest of my trip.

For millions of people, chronic illnesses and depression are facts of life. A chronic illness is a condition that lasts for a very long time and usually cannot be cured completely, although some ...

Dealing with anxiety or depression because of a chronic illness is very common and often does more than just make you feel awful; it can also worsen the condition you have, triggering painful or ...