BACKGROUND Unconventional natural gas development (UNGD) produces environmental contaminants and psychosocial stressors. Despite these concerns, few studies have evaluated the health effects of UNGD. OBJECTIVES We investigated associations between UNGD activity and symptoms in a cross-sectional study in Pennsylvania. METHODS We mailed a self-administered questionnaire to 23,700 adult patien...

The World Health Organization reports noncommunicable disease as a global pandemic. While national and international health research/policy bodies, such as the World Health Organization and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, emphasize the importance of preventative health, there is a continuing distortion in the allocation of resources to curative health as a result of government f...

Previous studies have shown that stress-induced cortisol increases impair memory retrieval in young people. This effect has not been studied in older people; however, some findings suggest that age-related changes in the brain can affect the relationships between acute stress, cortisol and memory in older people. Our aim was to investigate the effects of acute stress on long-term memory retriev...

The overall top level goal of this effort is to investigate the physiological i.e. neuroimmunoendocrinological responses of beluga whales to “stressors”. “Stressor events” will allow for a better understanding and characterization of the relationships among hormones (e.g. cortisol, corticosterone, adrenocorticotropin hormone, aldosterone, catecholamines) in different matrices (blood, saliva, bl...