Diabetes affects how the body uses glucose, also known as blood sugar. It can mean that there is too much sugar in the blood.

Impaired kidney function was also identified as a key risk factor for heart disease, contributing to about 12% of global ...

A new global study warns that chronic kidney disease is quietly becoming a major public health crisis, with cases worldwide ...

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 ...

Typhus, malaria, polio and measles - throughout history, humanity has been affected by terrible, contagious and sometimes fatal diseases. Erik Ekstrand takes us on a terrifying journey where he lets ...

Heart disease is still the top cause of death in the US, but the types of heart disease killing people are changing, a new analysis has found. While deaths from acute conditions such as heart attacks ...

Inside a nautical-themed office building in Mount Pleasant featuring a giant tide gauge and metal fish sculptures, sit quiet offices where people are working to fight "the worst disease you have never ...