Another study adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting that exposure to low levels of chemical warfare agents during the Gulf War has not led to increased illness among veterans of that conflict.
Depressed patients who undergo heart transplantation because of a certain type of heart disease are about five times as likely to die in the first few years after surgery as similar patients who are not depressed, according to a new study.
Using 'snuff' tobacco may protract the process of trying to quit smoking, despite messages that it can help people quit, according to a new study. Moreover, those who use snuff are likely to move on to cigarettes.
Social support is sometimes a vital missing ingredient for lower-income women who continue to smoke or use alcohol during pregnancy. Public health professionals and clinicians can play an important role in filling this gap, suggest the results of a new study.
Nutrition counseling can make a difference in the health of high-risk patients, yet it takes place in a minority of primary care visits, according to a study.
Psychological distress, especially anger, anxiety and depression, may be good predictors of high blood pressure, new research suggests.
Doing math in your head in a high-pressure environment raises your blood pressure, as does walking a quick and mindless quarter-mile. But new research shows that only the former includes an emotional component, making it a stressor that keeps on giving.
A few minutes alone with a pet cat or dog might do more to help people's stress than talking about their troubles with their best friend or spouse, according to a new study.
Although stressful life events may affect the health of both men and women, men are more vulnerable, according to a recent study of nearly 3,000 people in Finland.
Internet-based therapy can help sufferers cope with tinnitus, the medical term for the ringing sound in the ears that is experienced by 10 to 14 percent of adults, suggest the results of a Swedish study.
A mental state known as vital exhaustion may increase blood clotting, helping to explain why it is associated with a heightened heart attack risk, according to a study conducted in the Netherlands.
Even among healthy adolescents, differences exist between ethnic and gender groups that may predict high blood pressure without an identifiable cause, suggest the results of a study of black and white males and females.
People who cope with a life-threatening situation by ignoring their anxiety or diverting their attention away from it may be doing themselves a favor. Such practices may act as a buffer against stress disorders, according to the results of an Israeli study of heart attack patients.
An automated tracking system that receives data from all military medical facilities in the Washington, D.C., area could serve as a model for designing a national system for detecting outbreaks of diseases and biological terrorism.
Participating in ethnic activities can make adolescents feel good about themselves -- but only if they consider their ethnic identity central to who they are, according to a study of Chinese-American teenagers.
Optimism may empower people to change their behaviors for the better, but the belief that the future brings the possibility of positive change diminishes greatly as we get older, according to new research.
People's beliefs that they are being treated badly because of racial or gender bias increases their stress levels, and may lead to increased emotional and behavioral problems, according to a study of black and white youth.
Good parenting style and a positive personal outlook can help black single mothers in poor rural areas raise children who do well in school and cope well with life in general, according to new research.
How young black children learn about race may affect their cognitive and behavioral development, suggest study results.
Affluent, suburban middle-school students may face certain pressures that make them susceptible to depression and more likely to smoke or use drugs and alcohol, according to a new study.
Although a link between on-the-job alcohol impairment and occupational injury is well established, less is known about the effect of drinking off-the-job on occupational injury and mortality. A new study finds that transit employees with heavier weekly drinking rates were more likely to experience some trauma on the job.
Drinking modest amounts of alcohol seems to have a preventative effect against heart disease in post-menopausal women, just as it does among middle-aged men, by raising good cholesterol and altering other constituents of the blood.
A new study suggests that genes, not religion, may help explain why Jews generally have fewer problems with alcohol than Caucasians in general do.
Women who marry alcoholics may have unique characteristics that influence their partner's drinking, according to new research.
An in-home program for disadvantaged toddlers can help children be better prepared to learn once they start grade school, new research reveals.
In the face of legal challenges to affirmative action, leaders of the U.S. medical school establishment are calling for the use of race-conscious decision making as "the best means available for closing the diversity gap" in medical school admissions.
With the baby boom generation closing in on old age, every health care professional should be trained in treating the elderly, contend three nursing professors.
Even though more people are turning to the Internet for medical information, doctors will not lose their trusted status as society's "healing class," predicts an expert in health care policy. They may have to change the way they practice, however.
The peer pressure that leads young people into bad habits like smoking may also be a factor in getting them to quit, suggests a new study examining the social influence on young smokers.
Knowing the long-term health benefits of quitting and the long-term harm of continued smoking may not be enough incentive for some smokers to kick the habit.
Giving smokers medication to mimic an increase in their brain's level of a substance called dopamine could help squelch their desire for cigarettes, according to a new study.
Believing that you have control over a moderately stressful situation may make it less potentially damaging to your heart and circulatory system, a new study suggests.
If you want someone's attention, show them the money and you're more likely to get results, at least when it comes to their body's responses, a new study suggests.
A woman's physical fitness level may mitigate the effect of stress on her risk of developing high blood pressure, according to a new study.
Parents who smoke and drink and generally do not take care of their health may influence their children to do the same, according to a new study that links parents' risky behavior to early sexual activity in teens.
A global policy change that discourages tobacco use could save more than 5 million smokers' lives at a reasonable cost, a new report on tobacco control policies estimates.
New research provides insight that may help patients with knee osteoarthritis get over the "pain hump" when they begin a program of physical activity: evidence that the increased pain immediately following exercise is short-lived.
Researchers in France have found differences in red wine drinkers' "good cholesterol," which could account for the drink's beneficial effects against cardiovascular disease.
A team of researchers asks in a new health journal article, "Are the Fat More Jolly?" What they found was that obesity does not protect people from mental health problems.
Keeping a journal of one's feelings about a traumatic experience, as well as the effort to mentally process that experience, can help people effectively work through it, according to a new study.
Women who receive personalized messages by telephone and by mail may be more likely to get mammography screening, a new study shows.
HIV-positive men who seek new experiences and think alcohol improves sex are more likely to have unprotected sex, according to a new study.
Elderly people whose religious beliefs help them cope with the loss of a loved one seem to stay healthier than those who don't look to spiritual forces for support, according to a new study.
Encouraging substance abusers to participate in more rewarding activities and manage their negative emotions early in treatment may improve their chances of success, new research suggests.
New research shows a connection between the way alcoholics respond physically to stress and their difficulty remembering things or solving problems.
Doctors willing to spend time and effort to build trust with their young patients will be rewarded with a more productive and long-lasting relationship, according to a new study.
Routine parent-child bedsharing before 6 years of age appears to have no major impact on a child's subsequent development or behavior -- for better or for worse, the first long-term study of the practice reveals.
People with a family history of alcoholism may develop a tolerance that causes them to drink more in order to feel the same effects, according to a recent study.
Physicians are no more likely than their patients to protect themselves from the sun's harmful rays, a new study reveals.
Girls involved in sports that emphasize staying at a certain weight are more likely than their peers to practice unhealthy eating behaviors to achieve their desired weight, a new large-scale study confirms.
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