The pharmaceutical industry struggles to create good, long-term treatments for pain and other chronic conditions.

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There are helpful primers on the role of different fats, the importance of protein and how excess weight plays into harmful inflammation in the body, which is linked to heart disease and other chronic conditions.

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This care has proved to be efficient for treating diseases such as HIV and AIDS, malaria and other parasitic conditions, and chronic and lifestyle diseases.

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Implantable or attachable devices already exist or soon will exist that can monitor the conditions of diabetics, asthmatics, heart patients and patients with numerous other chronic conditions.

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These conditions can lead to increased risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness, among other chronic conditions, particularly if left untreated or poorly treated.

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Currently, little is known about differences in health care use and spending across states (or other geographic areas) for populations with multiple chronic conditions.

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Other studies have suggested that cannabinoids can ease chronic pain associated with conditions cancer and spinal cord injury.

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This technique could potentially be used to deliver vaccines against other infectious diseases such as those administered in childhood, and also vaccines to manage chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions such as type-1 diabetes or vaccines to control certain allergies.

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