Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) has issued its long-awaited heat stress standards. Maryland employers need to pay careful attention ...

In 2021, personnel mental health and personnel safety (along with retention of quality personnel) topped the list of most critical issues facing EMS in the EMS Trend Report, produced by Fitch & ...

Extreme heat and cold are associated with a higher number of occupational accidents, but between 1989 and 2019 the risk of ...

Whether excitatory and inhibitory neural populations in the medial preoptic area of hypothalamus (MPOA) respond differentially under different chronic stress conditions is not fully understood.

Chronic stress speeds colorectal cancer's spread dramatically by disrupting gut microbiota -- the delicate balance of good ...

To prove this, we went to the U.S. Department of Labor database to determine five of the best-paying jobs with the lowest stress factors as defined by the labor department’s Occupational ...

The link between stress and psychopathology is an old, established finding in psychology. The mechanisms underlying this link, however, are not as clear. Early theories advanced a "stress exposure ...

Stress is mainly a physical response to situations or events. It’s caused by your body releasing ‘fight or flight’ hormones. These are chemicals produced by your body, such as adrenaline. They ...

Occupational therapy (OT) is a form of rehabilitation therapy that helps you improve your ability to carry out daily tasks, or occupations. Generally, a healthcare provider can refer you to an ...

Background: Occupational stress among emergency medical staff remains a central problem. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies were focused on the working conditions of clinical emergency staff ...