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Many people experience one or more types of psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, psychosocial stress or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after a heart attack, which can affect ...

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Despite the popularity of weight loss drugs, in most cases, obesity is not caused by a deficiency of GLP-1, the biochemical that these drugs mimic, and they have adverse side effects. Rather, boosting ...

Psychological stress during pregnancy is known to affect birth outcomes, but isolating its effects has been difficult.