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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News A study in the Jan. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Individuals with sleep-related breathing disorders appear to burn more calories when resting as their conditions become more severe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Research in the present issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that after a one-hour delay of school start times, teens increased their average nightly hours of sleep and decreased their "catch-up sleep" on the weekends, and they were involved in fewer auto... |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A new study finds the use of light exposure therapy, dark sunglasses and a strict sleep schedule can help night-shift workers make a "compromise circadian phase position," which may result in increased performance and alertness during night shifts while still allowing adequate... |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A team of researchers from Monash University, The Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston), Harvard Medical School and Vanda Pharmaceuticals has found a new drug with the potential to alleviate jet lag and sleep disorders caused by shift work. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Child Health News A study in the Dec. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as very glad spend more time reading and socializing.The study appears in the December issue of the journal Social Indicators Research. |
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
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Drug Trials Scientists have found that Pycnogenol, a natural plant extract from the bark of pine trees, can decrease jetlag symptoms by half. Pycnogenol is the patented trade name for a water extract of the bark of the French maritime pine (Pinus pinaster ssp. |
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Feeling sleepy? That's as parts of your brain are positively asleep, according to a new theoretical paper by sleep scientists at Washington State University. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Child Health News According to new research regularly getting a wonderful night's sleep as a child may help defend adults from becoming obese. |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Scientists at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine have linked insomnia to a neurochemical abnormality in the brain.In a study which examined primary insomnia in young and middle-aged adults a special neurochemical difference was seen in the brains of the participants. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Child Health News Middle school children who have a television or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, watch more TV, play more computer games and surf the net more than their peers who don't - reveals joint research conducted by the University of Haifa and Jezreel Valley... |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Medical Condition News A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that objectively measured heavy snoring is an independent risk issue for early carotid atherosclerosis, which may progress to be associated with stroke. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Medical Research News A neuroimaging study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep is the first to find that cognitive processes related to verbal fluency are compromised in people with insomnia in spite of the absence of a behavioral deficit. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News The business of a Scottish doctor is under jeopardy after he prescribed sleeping tablets to a suicidal patient who then took her own life. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Just one night without sleep can increase the amount of the chemical dopamine in the human brain, according to new imaging research in the August 20 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. |
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an independent risk reason for all-cause mortality, according to a study in the August 1 issue of the journal Sleep. |
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Sleep-disordered breathing (also known as sleep apnea) is associated with an increased risk of death, according to new results from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, an 18-year observational study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National... |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Family, friends and neighbors remember Lisa Sandler Spaeth as an active mother of 2 in Potomac, Md. |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Medical Research News While scientists and physicians know what occurs if you don't get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what controls the actual need for sleep. |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Bladder problems may leave a mark on the brain, by changing patterns of brain activity, probably contributing to disrupted sleep and problems with attention. |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Medical Research News Aging impairs the consolidation of memories during sleep, a process valuable in converting new memories into long-term ones, according to new animal research in the July 30 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Postmenopausal women who regularly sleep more than nine hours a night may have an increased risk of ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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Child Health News According to new study by Australian researchers, a lack of sleep can have a bad affect on the capability of children to both learn and cooperate at school. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep increase as women go through menopause according to research by Rush University Medical Center. Waking up before than planned also increases through late perimenopause but decreases when women become postmenopausal. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Research led by a team at the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School has found that reducing the hours of junior doctors does not compromise patients' safety and could even dramatically cut mistakes on wards but, there are some concerns about decreased educational... |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
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Child Health News Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), has hit the headlines again with a Tasmanian coroner having to remind parents of the dangers of sharing their bed with their baby. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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THURSDAY, June 26 The lack of 2 related genes tied to autism may also disrupt the body's natural sleep cycle and cause further mental impairment, a new report says. |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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SUNDAY, June 22 Most women don't need a survey to tell them a basic fact of female life: They're frequently sleep-deprived and feel too sluggish to make it through the day with vigor. |
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
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FRIDAY, June 13 Having delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) appears to be linked to irregular menstrual cycles and increased premenstrual symptoms in women, according to a new report. |
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