Stress

Stress relief strategies
Stress, unalleviated, contributes to heart disease and depression, and can make chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma worse.
Stress can take a toll on your health
Stress can cause major health problems for many people and is rapidly driving up the cost of healthcare nationwide.
Psychologist: Stress management with Chilean miners is a tricky, but not impossible
(PhysOrg.com) -- A psychologist and stress expert at the University at Buffalo says research on traumatic experiences pinpoints specific sources of stress that the trapped Chilean miners and their rescuers will need to manage in the weeks and months ahead, and offers ways of dealing with them.
Stress, heart risk link may lie in hair: study
TORONTO - Whether you're sporting a cropped cut or long curls, your hair may do more than reflect your personal style — researchers say it may serve as a means to measure stress.
Hair shows chronic stress link to heart attacks
Chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks, according to an Israeli-Canadian study of stress hormone levels in hair.
Stress test death sparks reform call
THE daughter of a man who died after a treadmill stress test has welcomed a coroner's call for change in how patients with chest pain are treated.
Stress Management with Chilean Miners Is Tricky
A psychologist at the University at Buffalo says research on traumatic experiences pinpoints sources of stress that the trapped Chilean miners and their rescuers will need to manage in the weeks and months ahead, and offers ways of dealing with them.
Measure stress in hair to assess cardiac risk
Toronto, Sep 3 : The levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in one's hair can tell when a person is most likely to suffer a heart attack.
Eurobank Stress Tests: A Failed Confidence Ploy
As much as this blog was a persistent critic of the US version of the stress tests, I must hand it to the folks at the Treasury: they did an impressive job of dressing up and selling a garbage barge. The combination of consistent cheerleading, extend and pretend, and a few short squeezes did wonders [...]
Vets With Stress Disorder More Likely to Develop Dementia
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, are more likely to develop dementia than those without the disorder, according to researchers at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Texas.