(Medical Xpress)—A new study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that a two-hour exposure to electronic devices with self-luminous "backlit" displays causes melatonin suppression, ...
Aug 27, 2012
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The US Food and Drug Administration, for the first time, approved Wednesday medication specifically designed for those who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep.
Nov 23, 2011
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Patients who take certain popular types of blood pressure medication once a day are able to achieve somewhat better control of their hypertension if they take their daily dose at bedtime, according to a new systematic review. ...
Oct 7, 2011
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Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part. "Early to bed and early to rise" appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian youths keep slimmer and more physically active than their night-owl peers, ...
Sep 30, 2011
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It has likely happened to everyone at some point: You are poised to go to sleep, but instead a "digital distraction" keeps you up hours later than you had planned.
Dec 11, 2023
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Sleep-deprived parents may view that bottle of melatonin gummies on the store shelf as a golden ticket to finally getting their kids to sleep and getting some rest themselves.
Dec 4, 2023
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Video games and social media are keeping school kids up at night, according to a new survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).
Aug 21, 2023
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Daylight saving time changes have a knack for wrecking people's sleep schedules, but they don't have to, according to the Farmers' Almanac.
Mar 10, 2023
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New research published in the Journal of Sleep Research has examined how sleep might be impacted by media use—such as watching movies, television, or YouTube videos; browsing the Internet; or listening to music—before ...
Feb 9, 2022
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Going to bed early and following a consistent bedtime routine may help reduce children's risk of becoming overweight or obese, according to a new study published in Acta Paediatrica.
Apr 8, 2020
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