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You know, addiction is a chronic brain disorder. It is a disease. And if we treat it as such, then we've got a chance of making some progress in the battle against it. But if we continue to see it ...

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Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that primarily affects the gastrointestinal tract but can affect other organs in the body too. Crohn's disease symptoms that involve ...

FOR centuries, gout has been a deeply misunderstood disease, associated only with jolly, indulgent, and often big men. When Henry VIII was diagnosed, it became firmly entrenched in popular belief ...

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