For millions of Americans, paying for the treatment needed to manage their diseases can become its own lifelong problem. By Carly Stern Karen Mancera ended the phone call in a panic. In July, she was ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear in testimony before the Senate this week that if confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, his focus would be on chronic diseases over infectious ones. “We’ve ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Chronic disease isn’t going away, but a ...

In places like Mingo County, W.Va., where working-age people are dying at record rates, a nurse learns what it takes to make America healthy. Sam Runyon, a nurse, treats Cora Perkins at home in ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that infectious diseases capture public attention at the expense of chronic conditions and chronic diseases. “Every kid who has got ...

America is a nation awash in lifestyle diseases, nearly all of which are chronic. From hypertension, which impacts close to half of all adults, to chronic kidney disease, affecting more than one in ...

Among all high-income Western countries, the United States has shown the worst performance in reducing the probability of dying from chronic diseases, a new study finds. From 2010 to 2019, deaths due ...