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Didgeridoo playing improves your sleep
Regular didgeridoo playing reduces snoring and daytime sleepiness, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. view more (2005-12-23)
Breathing Support Reduces Blood Pressure For People With Sleep Apnoea (p 204)
A reduction in blood pressure-and in the probable risk of stroke and other cardiovascular disease-could be possible for patients treated with nocturnal breathing support for sleep apnoea, conclude authors of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Obstructive sleep apnoea is a serious condition in which airflow from the nose and mouth to the... view more... (2002-01-17)
Treating sleep disorders would reduce risk of serious motor vehicle crashes
Sleep related accidents comprise 15-20% of all motor vehicle crashes, resulting in thousands of serious injuries and death. Yet a study published in Thorax confirms that treatment of patients with sleep apnoea would reduce their risk of serious motor vehicle crashes to a rate similar to the general driving population. Over 200 patients with... view more... (2001-06-14)
Key to snoring and sleep disordered breathing may lie in neck muscle bulk
The reason why men tend to snore more and suffer more sleep disordered breathing (apnoea) than women, may lie in their neck muscles, finds research in Thorax. view more (1999-03-19)
Sleeping with the enemy
It has been linked to learning impairment, stroke and premature death. Now UNSW research has found that snoring associated with sleep apnoea may impair brain function more than previously thought. view more (2009-06-03)
THE LANCET Neurology PRESS RELEASE
ISSUE: AUGUST 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE view more (2002-07-17)
No evidence that melatonin is effective in treating jet lag
There is no evidence that melatonin is effective in treating secondary sleep disorders or preventing jet lag, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. view more (2006-02-10)
Is Body Mass Index A Risk Factor For Road Traffic Injuries?
Drivers who are overweight or underweight are at greater risk of suffering an injury in a road accident than people of average size, according to a study of deaths and injuries from motor vehicle accidents in New Zealand. The study appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE), edited in the Department of Social... view more... (2003-04-25)
Controlled crying reduces infant sleep problems
Teaching mothers how to implement controlled crying techniques can reduce infant sleep problems and symptoms of postnatal depression, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. view more (2002-04-30)
Insomnia Poorly Understood By Medical Profession (p 1959)
ISSUE: 27 November-3 December 2004 EMBARGO: 0001 H (London time) Friday 26 November 2004. In North America the embargo lifts at 6.30pm ET Thursday 25 November 2004. view more (2004-11-24)
People overestimate their self-reported sleep times compared to measures by a sleep test
Self-reports of total sleep times, both habitually and on the morning after a polysomnogram (PSG), or a sleep test, tend to be higher than objectively measured sleep times. view more (2007-10-15)
Study shows a bidirectional relationship between chronic stress and sleep problems
People with chronic stress report shorter sleep duration, worse sleep quality, and more daytime functioning impairments. view more (2009-06-10)
Journal Sleep: Link between insomnia and hypersomnia, depression in children
According to a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP, sleep-disturbed children are more severely depressed and have more depressive symptoms and comorbid anxiety disorders compared with children without sleep disturbance. view more (2007-01-03)
Test of fitness to drive in patients with sleepiness syndrome
A three-year project grant of £61,783 has been awarded by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland to Dr Heather Engleman and Professor Neil Douglas of the Centre, which is located in the University of Edinburgh's Respiratory Medicine Unit. The money will enable clinical and psychometric validation work to be performed on an objective test of... view more... (2000-01-20)
Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with poor sleep in women
Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) negatively affect women's sleep. Sleep is further impaired by pain, depression and poor adherence to RA medications. view more (2009-06-10)
Surgery proves effective in treating pediatric obstructive sleep apnea
Infants and young toddlers with obstructive sleep apnea and sleep disordered breathing experience significant improvement following surgical treatment of the ailment, according to an invited article in the June 2009 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. view more (2009-06-01)
Cardiac arrhythmias are often accompanied by sleep-disordered breathing
Breathing during sleep is often impaired in patients with atrial fibrillation. In the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106(10): 164-70), Thomas Bitter and his coauthors from the Ruhr University in Bochum investigate how often sleep-disordered breathing occurs in this form of cardiac arrythmia and what... view more... (2009-03-20)
REM sleep behaviour disorder is an early marker of neurodegenerative diseases
The front page of the July 2006 issue of The Lancet Neurology, the journal with the highest international impact, contains a work that shows the relationship between disorders during REM sleep and future neurodegenerative pathologies. view more (2006-06-29)
Insomniac fish shed light on the molecular basis of sleep disorders
Sleep disorders are common and poorly understood. In humans, narcolepsy is a sleep disorder associated with sleepiness, abnormal dreaming, paralysis and insomnia. view more (2007-10-16)
Poor sleep is associated with lower relationship satisfaction in both women and men
A bidirectional association exists between couples' sleep quality and the quality of their relationship. view more (2009-06-10)
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