Healthcare professionals use various criteria to describe acute and chronic conditions. The two types of conditions have several differences in the way people experience, develop, and receive ...

Glomerulonephritis refers to acute and chronic kidney diseases caused by injury to the glomerulus, a part of the kidney responsible for filtering blood. If the kidney is injured, it is unable to ...

Background and aims: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are relatively common infections in children. Findings on nuclear renal scans suggest that the vast majority of infants and young children with ...

Acute pain is sudden and intense, while chronic pain is persistent and typically lasts longer than 3 months. Acute pain is short-term and typically occurs in a specific area of the body. It is usually ...

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.

Chapee #. A man in his 50s, who visited the hospital due to back muscle pain, had a fever of more than 38 degrees during ...

Acute renal failure comes on suddenly, usually in people who are already critically ill. Chronic kidney disease develops gradually and may not cause symptoms until much later. Treatments differ, but ...

Presented at the meeting of the New England Branch of the American Urological Association, Boston, February 25, 1937. From the Infants' and Children's hospitals and the Departments of Pediatrics and ...

A new study reveals that when we experience short-term (acute) pain, the brain has a built-in way to dial down pain signals — like pressing the brakes — to keep them from going into overdrive. But in ...