At any given time during our lives, we will all have health problems. It can be a simple cold or something more severe like COVID. Many times, there are quick illnesses that will go away on their own.

As hospitals strive to meet the challenges of value-based care, recognizing the best settings to diagnose and manage serious conditions with sudden onset can be a useful way for organizations to ...

Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. It can be either acute, producing temporary symptoms, or chronic, leading to long-term damage. Acute pancreatitis may lead to chronic pancreatitis in some ...

A study of 40.7 million commercially insured adults in the United States who sought care via telehealth found contrasting patterns of follow-up care between those with chronic conditions and those ...

Leukemia causes uncontrollable growth and reproduction of cells called leukocytes. In acute leukemia, leukocytes are less mature, develop fast, and become dysfunctional cells called blasts as they ...

Acute chest syndrome is a serious complication of sickle cell disease. It involves symptoms like chest pain, cough, or fever and can be life threatening if not treated promptly. Sickle cell disease is ...

This is the sixth article in a Health Affairs Forefront short series “Understanding And Addressing Pre-Hospital Diagnostic Delays.” As the introductory article, “Building The Evidence To Assure ...

In a 2017 New Yorker profile, Ophelia Dahl, one of the founders of the nonprofit Partners in Health, described the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa as “acute on chronic.” What she meant was that the ...

The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) recorded 38 cases of chronic lifestyle-related diseases from December 21, ...

Development and Evaluation of a Navigation-Based, Multilevel Intervention to Improve the Delivery of Timely, Guideline-Adherent Adjuvant Therapy for Patients With Head and Neck Cancer We reviewed the ...