News tagged with 'Stress'

The parents of Nataline Sarkisyan cannot sue insurer CIGNA because under ERISA, employee-offered plans can't be challenged on the basis of decisions they make. However, following an incident where a CIGNA employee gave the finger to Mrs. Sarkisyan, the couple can sue for emotional distress.

The largest registry of health effects following the 9/11 attacks, finds psychological stress and asthma are lingering.

A new study published in the Archives of Neurology suggests the effects of smoking can speed up the progression of multiple sclerosis. Past studies have suggested cigarette smokers are at an increased risk of developing the disease.

On the day the Labor Department announced another half-million job losses, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health are releasing their findings about unemployment’s impact on health. Losing a job can translate into compromised health, researchers found, even if a new job is secured. 

While the complication rate is said to be one in a million, a growing voice of patients claim that the medical device - synthetic surgical mesh - used to treat incontinence and hernias, is not staying put but is migrating, wrapping around organs, requiring repeated surgeries, and in some cases killing patients. They want it off the market. 

Holland America may not have to compensate passengers who were onboard a cruise where norovirus broke out. More than 100 passengers were sickened and the cruise out of San Diego curtailed while the sick stayed in their cabins.

The rate of suicide among Army troops is at a three-decade high, the Army announced today.   In 2008, 128 returning soldiers killed themselves. Deaths are highest among members of the Army and Marines. In response, the military is hiring more psychologists and says it's training soldiers to recognize PTSD in each other.  

A new study finds the risk of developing dementia may depend on your personality - the calm and centered types had a 50 percent reduced risk versus the neurotic and agitated.  Social isolation seems to make a difference as well.

Chicago tops the list of ten most stressful cities as compiled by Forbes. Criteria such as population density, air quality and unemployment were considered among the nation's top 40 metropolitan areas.

Happiness a collective phenomenon.  That is the conclusion of a study of more than 4,700 people, followed over 20 years, all part of the Framingham Heart Study social network. This large study finds that happiness can ripple through a cluster of people who may not even know each other and can spread through your social circle. Unhappiness does not permeate as well.  

A new study finds 40 percent of women report sexual problems, but only 12 percent are distressed about it. According to the National Institutes of Health, sexual dysfunction can be classified as a lack of sexual desire, an inability to become aroused, a lack of orgasm or painful intercourse.

Social mobility is defined as children doing better financially than their parents. That is not happening in the U.S. according to a 30-nation economic report, “Growing Unequal," released this week. Look for the "American Dream" in Denmark, Sweden and Australia.

Americans injured by the financial collapse of this country have to look at the housing industry and specifically Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. He predicts more layoffs and says he was "shocked" that free markets did not act in the shareholders best interest. 

New research shows adults near the World Trade Center on 9/11, as well as many others, still suffer from numerous physical and psychological health problems such as asthma and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles find that, particularly for women, a good marriage helps them cope with the stress of the workday. Levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, drops more when happily married women return home. The same is not true for men. Cortisol is associated with illness, depression, chronic fatigue, obesity and Type 2 diabetes.