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Jim Monaghan’s guest on Jersey Magazine is Dr. Leigh Wilson, Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals WTC Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence (CCE). As we approach the 25th anniversary…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Chronic Wasting Disease has come to Middle Tennessee. Decatur, Dickson, Humphreys, Lewis, Wayne and Williamson have had at least one deer test positive for CWD this year. CWD was discovered in west Tennessee in 2018 in Fayette, Hardeman and Madison counties. The disease attacks the neurological system and causes tissue loss.…

Chronic inflammation has become one of wellness culture’s favorite villains, blamed for everything from fatigue and weight gain to cancer and cognitive decline. But a sweeping new report from The New York Times reveals a more complicated—and potentially more important—truth: Inflammation isn’t simply harmful, and indiscriminately suppressing it could weaken one of the body’s most…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for lonafarnib for the treatment of chronic hepatitis D

ME is a serious chronic illness that affects, among other things, the immune system, the nervous system and the body’s energy metabolism. At present, the condition is diagnosed on the basis of patients’ symptoms and by ruling out other illnesses. There are currently no biological markers that doctors can use to make the diagnosis. 

A generative artificial intelligence platform is being developed by the international AIRIS collaboration to help scientists integrate complex biomedical data, explore how chronic diseases develop and produce testable hypotheses that could point towards new treatment approaches, with input from UCL on lung and liver disease

A multidisciplinary research team at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health has identified the protein cadherin-11 as a mediator of kidney injury and potential therapeutic target for chronic kidney disease

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elery Johnson, 36, who lives on the Treasure Coast of Florida with her husband and their three kids. This interview has been edited for length and clarity

Welsh musician Ren has been left visibly emotional during a live performance, with footage showing the singer wiping away tears as a crowd chants his name

Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections have become an increasing concern for people with chronic lung disease, in part because the infections can linger despite months of antibiotic treatment. Among the most common culprits is Mycobacterium avium, which can trigger persistent inflammation in the lungs and leave patients with ongoing symptoms even when antimicrobial therapy is underway