Dogs can also help wake sleepy patients on public transport
Researchers in Belgium also show how dogs can help patients with severe sleep problems.
Health
Dec 13, 2012 |
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Workplace bullying ups risk of prescriptions for anxiety, depression, insomnia
Witnessing or being on the receiving end of bullying at work heightens the risk of employees being prescribed antidepressants, sleeping pills, and tranquillisers, finds research published in BMJ Open.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 12, 2012 |
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Combination therapy may help decrease sleep apnea symptoms at higher altitudes
For individuals with obstructive sleep apnea traveling to higher altitudes (which may exacerbate symptoms), use of a combination therapy resulted in improvement in symptoms including reduced insomnia and better control of ...
Sleep apnea
Dec 11, 2012 |
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Child psychologist offers holiday tips for unruly kids
The holiday season can be particularly over-stimulating for young children, what with more pressure-packed traveling, shopping and even church-going. Boston University child psychologist Dr. Jonathan Comer offers parents ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2012 |
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Morning vs nighttime replacement affects adverse events with extended-wear contact lenses
For people using 30-day extended-wear/continuous-wear (EW/CW) contact lenses, replacing lenses at night doesn't lower the risk of complications compared to changing lenses monthly, suggests a study – "The Effect of Daily ...
Ophthalmology
Dec 10, 2012 |
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Researchers examine the neuroscience of mental fatigue
We all perhaps know the feeling of mental exhaustion, but what does it mean physiologically to have mental fatigue? A new study carried out using brain scans could help scientists uncover the neurobiological mechanisms underlying ...
Neuroscience
Dec 10, 2012 |
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Different genes behind same adaptation to thin air
Highlanders in Tibet and Ethiopia share a biological adaptation that enables them to thrive in the low oxygen of high altitudes, but the ability to pass on the trait appears to be linked to different genes in the two groups, ...
Medical research
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Kids' sleep-related breathing problems
Children with sleep-related breathing problems (such as snoring or apnea) frequently have concurrent behavioral sleep problems (such as waking repeatedly)—and vice versa, according to research led by a scientist at Albert ...
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Dec 06, 2012 |
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New oral drug candidate for African sleeping sickness
A new oral-only treatment for sleeping sickness has entered Phase II/III clinical study in patients with late-stage sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and soon in Central African Republic (CAR). ...
Medications
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Widely used sedatives/sleeping pills linked to increased fatal pneumonia risk
Commonly prescribed sleeping pills/sedatives may increase the risk of contracting pneumonia by as much as 50% and increase the risk of dying from it, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 05, 2012 |
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Treat snoring to avoid deadly heart failure
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea have the same early cardiovascular damage as diabetics, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities 2012. The study1 was presented by Dr Raluca Mincu from ...
Sleep apnea
Dec 05, 2012 |
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Study of link between night eating and the peculiar internal clock of fat cells
When researchers at the University of Pennsylvania messed with the internal clocks of mouse fat cells, a surprising thing happened. The mice got fat.
Medical research
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Women with sleep apnea have higher degree of brain damage than men, study shows
Women suffering from sleep apnea have, on the whole, a higher degree of brain damage than men with the disorder, according to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The findings ...
Sleep apnea
Dec 03, 2012 |
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Extended sleep reduces pain sensitivity
A new study suggests that extending nightly sleep in mildly sleepy, healthy adults increases daytime alertness and reduces pain sensitivity.
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Dec 01, 2012 |
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Men with belly fat at risk for osteoporosis
Visceral, or deep belly, obesity is a risk factor for bone loss and decreased bone strength in men, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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