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

Adjunctive use of therapy dogs in standard child-life therapy is tied to a reduction in child anxiety in the pediatric emergency department.

Spending just 15 minutes playing with a dog can help lower stress levels for university students, research reveals. Many ...

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

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 ...

Researchers also measured salivary cortisol levels in both children and parents. At baseline, the mean FACES scores were not ...

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

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