The impact is greater on a male fetus. The UW Medicine-led study encourages pregnant women to be tested for stress levels.
Emotions powerfully affect our health.
Realize that public-health cautions may continue to ebb and flow, said Anne Browning, UW Medicine's assistant dean for well-being.
An artificial-intelligence system was designed to use EKG readings to track the stress of mothers and their fetuses in a recent study.
Stress about COVID-19 likely played a role in irritable bowel symptoms, researchers suggest.
It's something that humans and hibernating squirrels have in common: Iodide dampens harm of stress-induced inflammation.
A pediatric social worker with UW Medicine offers suggeestions for families, including lowering your heartbeat.
The holiday season can be a perfect storm of stress with parties, work, and travel. Obligations and competing priorities can seem overwhelming.
Journal commentary cites gaps between what medical trainees are told by educators and what they experience.
"We don't actually need research to know that it would be terrifying for children, especially those children; they're strangers in a strange land, they don't speak the language, they don't know what's happening, (and) they are essentially wareho
