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More daytime sleeping predicts less recovery during rehabilitation for older adults
A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that daytime sleeping during a rehabilitation stay predicts less functional recovery for older adults, with effects lasting as long as three months. view more (2008-09-02)
Passive TV viewing related to children's sleeping difficulties
A recent Finnish randomized population-based study shows that TV-viewing, and particularly exposure to adult-targeted programs, such as current affairs programs, TV series and police series and movies, markedly increases the risk of sleeping difficulties in 5-6 year old children. view more (2006-06-01)
New Study Says Women's Health Much More at Risk from Sleep Deprivation
New research led by researchers at Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick reveals that women's health is much more at risk from sleep deprivation than men's. view more (2007-09-10)
Nightmares increase risk of further suicide attempts
A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, concludes that people who have nightmares following a suicide attempt are five times more likely to attempt suicide again, compared with those who do not have nightmares. view more (2009-02-04)
Will giving coffee to babies keep them awake as adults?
An F1000 evaluation looks at a Canadian study on how giving caffeine to newborn rats has a long-lasting and detrimental effect on sleep and breathing in adulthood. view more (2009-10-09)
Drug controls high-altitude illness
Acetazolamide, a drug used to manage fluid retention in heart failure, controlled the serious effects of pulmonary edema, the accumulation of fluid in lung tissue from high altitude, as well as improved brain oxygenation, during a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study. view more (2007-02-01)
More Britons live alone
More Britons are living alone than ever before, with more men than women living on their own between the ages of 25 and 44. And once someone has gone solo, they are more likely to remain living alone shows new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). view more (2005-01-27)
Over half of cot deaths occur while co-sleeping
More than half of sudden unexplained infant deaths occur while the infant is sharing a bed or a sofa with a parent (co-sleeping) and may be related to parents drinking alcohol or taking drugs, suggests a study published on bmj.com today. view more (2009-10-14)
Workers rarely extend the weekend by taking sick leave
The widespread belief that workers extend their weekends by taking sick leave on Fridays and Mondays is misplaced, say researchers in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Strategies to reduce Monday and Friday sick leave are probably a waste of time, they conclude. view more (2001-11-09)
Frequent feeds over 24 hours triple likelihood of disrupted night sleep for babies
Frequent feeds over 24 hours at one week of age triple the likelihood of disrupted night sleep at older ages, shows research in Archives of Disease in Childhood. But a simple three step behavioural programme can make a difference, concludes the study. view more (2003-01-21)
U of M professor explores spooning, snoring and sheet stealing
Snoring, spooning, stealing the sheets and sleeping in the nude - for the millions of people who share a bed with a partner, University of Minnesota family social science professor Paul Rosenblatt's new book explores the challenges and benefits of "sleeping together." view more (2006-08-16)
A reduced arousal threshold in Drosophila mutants prevents them from staying asleep
Most short-sleeping mutant phenotypes in Drosophila (a genus of small flies) are characterized by an inability to stay asleep, most likely because of a reduced arousal threshold, according to a study published in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP. view more (2008-04-01)
Shorter nightly sleep in childhood may help explain obesity epidemic
Soaring levels of obesity might be linked to children sleeping fewer hours at night than they used to, claims a researcher in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. view more (2006-10-19)
Rapid Workplace Expansion Linked To Long-Term Sickness Absence (pp 1173, 1193)
A Swedish study in this week's issue of THE LANCET examining the health effects of exposure to personnel change has shown that rapid workplace expansion is strongly associated with an increased risk of long-term sickness absence and hospital admissions-especially among women working in the public sector. Previous studies have focused on the... view more... (2004-04-07)
Short, long sleep duration associated with increased mortality
A study published in the December 1 issue of the journal SLEEP is the first to show that both a decrease and an increase in sleep duration are associated with an elevated risk of mortality by cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular means, respectively. view more (2007-12-03)
Sleep duration is associated with variations in levels of inflammatory markers in women
A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that levels of inflammatory markers varied significantly with self-reported sleep duration in women but not men. view more (2009-07-01)
Study identifies source of fever
With the finding that fever is produced by the action of a hormone on a specific site in the brain, scientists have answered a key question as to how this adaptive function helps to protect the body during bacterial infection and other types of illness. view more (2007-08-06)
Research warns against sleeping in contact lenses
Sleeping in contact lenses can lead to an increased risk of severe eye infection, new research suggests. But new generation contact lenses, the investigation reveals, perform better in this regard than their predecessors. view more (2005-03-21)
Mathematics simplifies sleep monitoring
A UQ researcher has created a new way to measure breathing patterns in sleeping infants which may also work for adults. view more (2008-05-08)
Parents-and-babies to be filmed in co-sleeping study
The study sets out to examine the natural interaction between parents and babies asleep together, which some researchers have suggested could help to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or cot-death. The results could help to clarify advice to new parents. view more (1998-09-04)
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