Anxiety News

The Mackinac Bridge in Michigan spans five miles and is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world with the roadway soaring more than 200 feet over Lake Michigan.

Women dressed in gowns and their Sunday best lined a hallway of Columbiana Health and Rehabilitation in Columbiana Friday afternoon waiting for their turn to talk with judges about themselves and why they should be crowned Ms.

Even if you really don't want to exercise, engaging in physical activity can still have benefits for your mental health, a new animal study suggests.

A close friend recently told me about the post-traumatic stress disorder research of Stanford's Emma Seppala , PhD, whom she knows from the yoga community in Madison, Wisc.

TONY EASTLEY: Doctors, health researchers and a magistrate are welcoming prospective new tougher rules designed to halt the over-prescribing of a controversial anti-anxiety medication.

One of the boys, 15, fell asleep in class May 6 and could not be easily awakened, despite attempts by the teacher.

A bee flies from plant to plant while feeding on a flowering Anigozanthus, also known as Kangaroo Paws, at a nursery in San Gabriel, California on March 25, 2013.

Music can help soothe the fear and anxiety of critically ill patients who have been placed on ventilators, reducing both their stress and their need for sedatives, according to a new study.

R&B singer John Legend and his model girlfriend Chrissy Teigen have revealed that they'll be tying the knot this fall, nearly two years after they got engaged.

Veterans treated at Veterans Affairs Department medical facilities for post-traumatic stress disorder often receive highly addictive sedatives even though the department's own guidelines issued in 2010 recommend against their use for the condition.

When 24-year-old Caitlin Acosta of Falls Church, Va., was just 12 she reached into the family medicine cabinet and changed her life forever.

A certain level of anxiety is natural in certain situations. An anxiety disorder is generally defined as a relatively constant feeling of panic, depression and worry that something bad is inevitable.

Model Chrissy Teigen dished details of her upcoming wedding with singer John Legend, admitting her only must-have for the big day is a dose of Xanax.

The singer's hit Someone Like You is the perfect song to calm in-flight nerves, according to scientific research out today She's confessed to being terrified on an aeroplane, but is the cure for Adele's fear of flying listening to her own music? The singer's hit Someone Like You is the perfect song to calm in-flight nerves, according to scientific ... (more)

The shakes and cold sweats many of us feel when we talk in front of a group are just one vivid example of social anxiety--an excessive fear of being judged negatively.

Melbourne, May 13 : Australian scientists believe that the South Pacific kava plant could be an effective and safe treatment for anxiety.

Captain James Cook saw a lot of strange things when he was exploring Polynesia in 1769, but the virgins chewing kava brought him up short.

Researchers found that creative art therapy helps alleviate psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain among cancer patients, but has diminishing returns during follow-up. A graduate student and aspiring painter watches a master at work, a patient at the sprawling 300-acre campus of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City.

Anxious feelings resulting from today's stressful and high-pressure lifestyles are as common as an old shoe.

New research from the University of Illinois suggests that how a person reacts to good or bad times can determine how and even if they will suffer from anxiety.