A woman whose son was stillborn has said her severe symptoms were dismissed as “nothing to worry about” by NHS hospital staff but she “still feels like a mother despite it all”. Natasha Anderson, 34, ...

This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. My mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 12 years. Even with a lot of ...

The study, published in Genomic Psychiatry, identified how stress hormones activate specific RNA molecules called long noncoding RNAs, or IncRNAs, that interact with the gene-silencing complex PRC2, ...

A quieter than usual episode, HOUSE ARREST sees Tony spending time behind a desk at his carting company, and he is quickly bored to tears. Junior is under house arrest after some surgery, and quickly ...

Nearly half of the mortality gap between Black and White adults can be traced to the cumulative toll of a lifetime of stress and heightened inflammation, a new study published Monday shows. The study, ...

Things that go bump in the flight. Soaring levels of turbulence have increasingly turned air travel into a real nightmare at 30,000 feet. Just last month, two people suffered broken ankles after a ...

Most research on the health effects of stress focuses on adults, but a new review looks at how stress uniquely affects children. In the most comprehensive review of its kind to date, UC San Francisco ...

Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book “Practical Solutions for Back ...

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state experienced by most people worldwide. While short-term stress is a common ...

All this arguing with the city of Sacramento began more than a decade ago because Nora Williams has always loved sitting on her front porch. That gave her an unbeatable view of drivers speeding down ...