Junior tennis players face mounting pressure to excel, often training year-round with little rest. This intense schedule puts young athletes at risk for overuse injuries that can sideline their ...

Question: Why does my teenager have knee pain without an injury? Answer: Knee pain in adolescents is very common, especially ...

Introduction: Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) is characterized by its relatively frequent occurrence and unknown pathomechanism. It mainly affects young athletes. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) may ...

Among younger American adults, death from chronic disease actually increased — a rarity among high-income countries, a new report shows. By Nina Agrawal Chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer and ...

Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective ...

The Schlatter family, owner of Merryvale winery in St. Helena, has secured Napa County approval to start a smaller winery at their vineyards in the hills to the east. This new venture will be much ...

Editor’s Note (7/17/25): This story has been updated with additional reporting and expert commentary. President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a disease of the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services' budget request for the 2026 fiscal year consolidates the department's 28 divisions to 15 to make way for a new "institution of public health." The new ...

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 ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

Michael Ajayi committed to Butler in the transfer portal, most recently from Gonzaga. But it never seemed like a given that he'd play Division I basketball at all as the "late bloomer" faced other ...

TULSA, Okla. — The family of Terri Schlatter said she dealt with a lot in her young life. She was a young mother who got involved early on in some legal trouble with her husband, Darrell Schlatter.