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, ...

Pain in your abdomen can be a sign of pancreatitis, an acute or chronic inflammation of the ... bile duct caused by pancreatic cancer can cause stools to become pale or clay-colored.

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 ...

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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 ...

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