Abdominal pain is considered chronic if it lasts for more than three months. The pain may be constant or it can come and go over the three-month period or longer. There are many health conditions, ...

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think ...

I think we’re past the point where I have to explain that chronic pain is not the result of imbalanced humors or a wandering uterus or possession by demons. But for more modern skeptics ...

CLASHING APPROACHES TO CHRONIC DISEASE — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead HHS — wants to refocus health agencies on chronic disease. But House ...

chronic atrophic gastritis, reflux esophagitis or peptic ulcer, pancreatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis. [8–15] When the disease duration is longer than 10 years ...

and chronic blood loss resulting from parasites like hookworm. Hematologically, mean cell volume (MCV), mean cell hemoglobin (MCH) and mean cell hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) are all reduced.

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the high-risk gastritis stages (OLGA stages III and IV) feature mostly Type II and III IM, which incorporates the prognostic message obtainable from ...

There has been a significant update of our guidelines. Changes include: publication and ethics standards; article types and their requirements; standards of the Journal’s style guide, including ...