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Work stress and impaired sleep are linked to a threefold higher risk of cardiovascular death in employees with hypertension.

During a recent Lyft ride, I discovered that my driver had never been to San Francisco and had just arrived that morning--I happened to be his first-ever passenger in the city. A San Diego college student visiting a frie...

More than half of parents underestimated their children's classification as overweight or obese -- children themselves and health professionals also share this misperception.

Women who have undergone weight-loss surgery appear to be at higher risk of developing complications during pregnancy, and their babies seem more likely to be born prematurely, small for gestational age, have congenital ...

New research shows that individuals with obesity who commute by car have a 32% higher risk of early death, from any cause, compared with those individuals with a normal weight and commute via cycling and walking.

Obesity and emotional problems, such as feelings of low mood and anxiety, tend to develop hand-in-hand from as young as age seven years.

Obesity is linked with an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression in children and adolescents, independent of traditional risk factors such as parental psychiatric illness and socioeconomic status, according ...

Study adds to a growing body of evidence that stress in the workplace, coupled with impaired sleep, increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and coronary mortality, especially in hypersensitive workers.

CT1 cells connect around 1400 areas in the fly brain. Each cell area works like a separate neuron, allowing CT1 to access information from the fly's eye and support local motion detection.

Pikachu will go where no (cremated) cat has gone before.

The second-largest emperor penguin colony in the world appears to be collapsing, after rough seas drowned all of its babies three winters in a row.

(Singapore University of Technology and Design) SUTD worked with an international team of researchers to discover a new charge transfer and separation process named Twisted Intramolecular Charge Shuttle (TICS), paving a ...

(University of Plymouth) Researchers from the University of Plymouth's International Marine Litter Research Unit examined the degradation of five plastic bag materials widely available from high street retailers in the U...