In this installment of her Traumatech series, Maayan Hoffman reports from the ICAR (Israel’s Collective Action for Resilience ...

Women may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder than men because of what researchers call their “heightened fear response.” California scientists examined individuals with ...

Shapira was one of several speakers who addressed the issue of women and war on a panel moderated by Israel’s special envoy for trade and innovation, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. The session focused on the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (KFSN) -- One out of every ten veterans leaving their military commitments is a woman. That number will grow and with it, so will cases of PTSD. But helping these women is proving ...

Training a service dog doesn’t just change the life of another veteran; it may help heal the trainer, too. A new study finds that volunteering with dogs could slow biological aging in female veterans ...

The average age of the women in this sample was 33.7 years (standard deviation [SD] = 9.52; range, 8-64 years). Forty-seven percent (n = 74) of the abused women were African American, 46% (n = 72) ...

For most women, expecting a baby brings intense joy --and a fair amount of worry. But what about women who have lived through something awful enough to cause post-traumatic stress disorder? Contrary ...

Research suggests a bidirectional relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and fibromyalgia in military service ...