A new study raises questions about how financial stress fits into cardiovascular health. Dr. Leana Wen explains what people can do to protect their hearts.

Chronic stress doesn't just affect your mood, it can weaken immune defences, increase inflammation, and leave the body ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine. Lately I find myself ...

The tens of thousands of federal workers who have been cut from their jobs are not the only ones dealing with financial uncertainty. With people afraid to look at their retirement accounts and others ...

A new study finds that worrying about police brutality and harassment is associated with physical markers of cardiovascular ...

George Slavich recalls the final hours he spent with his father. It was a laughter-packed day. His father even broke into the song ‘You Are My Sunshine’ over dinner. “His deep, booming, joyful voice ...

Most research on the health effects of stress focuses on adults, but a new review looks at how stress uniquely affects ...

Unhealthy stress can be dangerous for your mental and physical state of being. Here's helpful ways on how to relieve and ...

And the longer you live in this heightened state, the harder it gets for you to return to being able to take things in stride ...

Food scarcity—the unreliable access to adequate, nutritious food—affects approximately 44 million Americans, including 13 million children. While hunger’s physical consequences receive significant ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered that measuring long-term stress through children’s hair samples can reveal early signs of mental health risks in those living with chronic ...