Playing with a dog for just 15 minutes can significantly reduce a person's stress, a new study reports. Stressed students who ...

Adjunctive use of therapy dogs in standard child-life therapy is tied to a modest but significantly greater reduction in both child-reported and parental-reported child anxiety in the pediatric ...

Stressed students who interacted with a friendly dog reported less stress, had a reduced heart rate and had lower levels of ...

A new study finds that nature-based childcare reduces gastrointestinal symptoms, stress markers, and improves gut microbiota diversity in young children.

Salivary cortisol measurements are particularly useful to investigate cyclical Cushing's syndrome. At least partial autonomy of cortisol production (either direct from the adrenal cortex or ...

If cortisol stays elevated consistently, the blood-sugar spike it sets off can lead to weight gain around the midsection. It ...

Anxiety is common among children visiting the ED, particularly when care involves painful or frightening processes such as blood draws or intravenous access, the authors wrote. Approximately 15% of ...

4 Following a 45-minute laboratory pain-testing session, healthy and temporomandibular disorder (TMD) participants exhibited a flattened morning salivary cortisol pattern associated with pain ...

Playing with a dog is good for both human and pooch People and dogs both showed physical signs of stress relief after a 15-minute interaction The dogs weren’t trained to be therapy pets, but the ...