If you aren't already paralyzed with stress from reading the financial news, here's a sure way to achieve that grim state: read a medical-journal article that examines what stress can do to your brain ...

Whether avoiding predators in the bush or in the office, humans have always had to cope with stress. But use of the word to mean that familiar clammy-handed, racing-heart, jumpy-tense feeling was ...

The Swedish physiologist Hans Selye was a pioneer stress researcher. He discovered the processes that link stress with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Selye conducted very ...

The notion of “stress” is ingrained in both academic and public discourse, creating a popular phenomenological term that is rarely defined. As accurately noted by Selye (1976), the founder of the term ...

The experiment seemed to be a dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal’s McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone.

In 2000, Canada issued a set of four stamps honouring “medical innovators.” These included Sir Frederick Banting who pioneered the use of insulin in diabetes, Dr. Maud Abbott, expert in congenital ...

Screens are pretty much everywhere we look these days and, I would wager, they’re here to stay. They are, after all, part-and-parcel of what he we’ve come to call the digital revolution. (Heck, I’m so ...