The Swedish physiologist Hans Selye was a pioneer stress researcher. He discovered the processes that link stress with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Selye conducted very ...

Whether avoiding predators in the bush or in the office, humans have always had to cope with stress. But use of the word to mean that familiar clammy-handed, racing-heart, jumpy-tense feeling was ...

The experiment seemed to be a dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal’s McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone.

In 2000, Canada issued a set of four stamps honouring “medical innovators.” These included Sir Frederick Banting who pioneered the use of insulin in diabetes, Dr. Maud Abbott, expert in congenital ...