Sleep disorders
Wake-up call: Urgent action needed to tackle Australia's sleep health issues
Australia is facing a silent public health crisis—and it's happening while we sleep.
Apr 29, 2025
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Sleep Disorders
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Early Parkinson's symptoms often mistaken for normal aging
Parkinson's disease is often seen as a condition that primarily affects older adults. In reality, it can impact people at any age, with 10–20% of cases appearing before the age of 50, and about half of those are diagnosed ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pregnancy may reduce long COVID risk
Pregnancy may offer some protection from developing long COVID, found a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Utah Health and Louisiana Public Health Institute. Previous ...
Apr 1, 2025
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
New moms advised to do two hours of moderate to vigorous exercise a week
New moms should be strongly encouraged to begin clocking up at least two hours of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity such as brisk walking and muscle-strengthening exercises each week in the first three months ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Cardiology
Poor sleep linked to advanced stages of a complex heart and kidney disease syndrome
People with a complex heart, kidney and metabolic-related condition who got better quality sleep were less likely to have an advanced stage of the illness than those getting poor sleep, according to a new study.
Mar 25, 2025
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Neuroscience
Insomniac fruit fly mutants show enhanced memory despite severe sleep loss
Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and Stephan Sigrist from Freie ...
Mar 20, 2025
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Sleep disorders
New AI model analyzes full night of sleep with high accuracy in largest study of its kind
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine have developed a powerful AI tool, built on the same transformer architecture used by large language models like ChatGPT, to process an entire night's sleep. To date, it is one ...
Mar 17, 2025
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Neuroscience
Poor sleep could be bad for your brain, study indicates
Poor sleep could have an impact on brain health, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) published in the journal Sleep Medicine.
Mar 13, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New tool enhances obstructive sleep apnea detection accuracy
Many Australians could be suffering from undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), with Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers developing a new technique to screen for the potentially fatal condition.
Mar 12, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study links sleep debt and night shifts to increased infection risk among nurses
A new study examining the effects of sleep patterns and shift work on the immune system has found that sleep debt and night shifts increase the risk of several common infections in nurses.
Mar 10, 2025
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