Pain from conditions such as endometriosis could be alleviated if the gut’s resident bacteria can be understood and tamed.

Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists beyond acute pain, typically over six months. It can be initiated with an injury or disease, but may persist after the triggering injury has healed ...

Nearly a quarter of California’s K-12 students missed several weeks’ worth of school during the 2022-23 school year — a decrease of 5 percentage points in chronic absenteeism from the previous school ...

Women, who represented 51% of the participants, had a higher widespread chronic pain when abdominal fat came into play, with twice as many pain sites when VAT was elevated, and 60% more chronic ...

Chronic stress is a prolonged, often overwhelming feeling of stress that can negatively impact a person’s daily life. Chronic stress can cause changes in mood, difficulty sleeping, and physical ...

For decades, medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease, but the concept has always been something of a hard sell to a skeptical public. That is because, unlike diseases ...

The U.S. is on track to shatter heat records, putting millions of Americans in the most affected parts of the country in harm's way for long-term, life-threatening health problems. Most states in ...