Acute and chronic conditions typically differ in how they develop and how long they last. Broadly speaking, acute conditions occur suddenly, have immediate or rapidly developing symptoms, ...

Everyone who is diagnosed with a chronic health condition processes it differently. People might be sad, anxious, or angry.

Another major difference between acute and chronic kidney disease is how doctors monitor and measure them. In AKI, doctors ...

A new study reveals that when we experience short-term (acute) pain, the brain has a built‑in way to dial down pain ...

Since the GLP-1 drugs, including Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy, were licensed, there have been hundreds of reported cases of ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brainstem respond very differently to acute versus chronic pain, potentially ...

Yet, chronic (that is, ongoing) and acute (meaning time-limited) diseases are closely linked. Treatments for infectious diseases often prevent the lifelong misery of chronic infections.