Although obesity is a prevalent and complex chronic disease, training for physicians remains generally inadequate. And while fellowship training in obesity medicine is now available at multiple ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...

Because of its often slowly progressive nature, dementia is often included among chronic disease management programs. Yet, for many reasons, its management demands different approaches. With the rise ...

Monoclonal antibody therapies are promising treatments for chronic disorders because they identify specific disease-causing molecules and train the immune system to clear them from the body. However, ...

Chronic liver disease develops from long-term liver damage over months to years. The most common causes are viral hepatitis and chronically high alcohol consumption. Chronic liver disease is the ...

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease analysis shows 5% of people account for nearly half of healthcare spending, with Ohio facing high rates of obesity and poor nutrition.