When you're faced with a highly stressful event in your life, the strategies outlined here will help you cope.
Mental stress does more than diminish your sense of well-being. It also can increase your risk for heart disease.
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a debilitating anxiety that can affect people who have been through or seen a traumatic event. Counseling and medicine can help.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder that affects your large intestine or colon. When you have IBS your colon looks normal. But it does not work the way it should.
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic skin disorder. It is also called eczema. It often affects infants and may last until adulthood. It causes itchy, scaly patches on the skin.
Insomnia is trouble falling to sleep or staying asleep. One in three adults has bouts of insomnia.
A heart attack happens when the blood supply is cut off from the heart muscle, usually because of a blood clot. Without blood and oxygen, the muscle cells are damaged and die.