A new study from Tel Aviv University has found that stress plays a crucial role in cancer progression even if the primary tumour has been removed through operation. The team leader concluded that stress before, during and after surgery impairs immune system functioning and leads to cancer recurrence.

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A recent research reveals that post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be the result of stressors adding up like building blocks, remodeling the plastic brain in a cumulative rather than a once-and-for-all fashion. Much more, stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common […]

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A research team at the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that people with ongoing stress in their lives are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress symptoms after experiencing a traumatic event.
To better understand what factors might increase the risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms, the researchers followed 2,752 New Yorkers for 30 months, interviewing […]

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A research study at Ohio State University in Columbus revealed that the stress hormone norepinephrine appears to promote the biochemical signals that stimulate certain tumor cells to grow and spread.
The new finding may suggest a new way of slowing the progression and spread of some cancers so that conventional chemotherapeutic treatments would have a better […]

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Reserchers at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk UK carried out a survey of 2,037 over-16s and revealed that stress of modern life is a disaster for sexual relationships.
Stress caused by financial worries, tiredness and work difficulties are affecting the sex lives of up to 15 million people in UK. Their subsequent loss of libido and […]

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A study conducted at the University of Utah found that when married couples with troubled relationships have hardening of the coronary arteries. Researchers identified certain differences in the ways that men and women talk and relate to one another and also gender-linked differences related to heart risks. For instance, wives who were hostile in disagreements […]

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A psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University, suggests that stress made the symptoms of certain diseases much worse. He concluded that stress is a causative factor in  depression, cardiovascular disease, and AIDS
This finding does not mean that the people who leading stressful lives will develop these diseases in the future, they only have to be predisposed to them. Nobody can live a […]

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Scientists have long known that the human body works like clockwork, managed by a circadian system that responds to daily patterns of light and darkness. The circadian clock is an internal regulating mechanism that controls the repetition of biological activities such as hormone production and secretion, core body temperature variations, sleeping and waking patterns. Among other human […]

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According to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, stress experienced at work dramaticaly increases risk of obesity in general and central obesity in particular.
A research team at  Royal Free and University College London Medical School monitored 3,413 women and 6,895 men for 19 years. Subjects were questioned several times about their levels of […]

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