On my semiannual trip to the dentist’s office, the hygienist casually mentioned that her husband has had intractable coughing for the past ten years. It was worse after exercise and during the night. He’d been to a doctor who felt allergy skin tests were in order. At another doctor, he was given an inhaler to […]

We have always known that stress can aggravate asthma. Stress can aggravate a lot of illnesses, from coronary heart disease to peptic ulcer disease. But can stress cause disease where none previously exists? From 1994 to 1996, researchers at the Channing Laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, studied 496 children recruited from […]