News tagged with alertness
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Playing a video game before bedtime has only a mild effect on adolescent sleep
A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests that playing a video game before bedtime has only a mild effect on the sleep of older male teens.
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Medical ID bracelets go glam to save lives
You can have a brilliant idea -- roller skates for cats, for example -- but if the public doesn't buy into it, the idea is worthless. Take medical alert jewelry.
Mar 11, 2010 |
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'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?
(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money
A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers ...
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Study examines the evolutionary fate of 'useless' traits
What happens when traits no longer give creatures a competitive edge?
Sep 08, 2009 |
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ID-theft ruling: Set your own fraud alerts
(AP) -- Companies that sell "identity-theft protection" present an alluring but questionable proposition.
May 29, 2009 |
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Unique electronic strategy alerts physicians to latest clinical information on H1N1 flu
History was made at 2:30 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, April 29, when more than 3,000 physicians in Indianapolis were sent a broadcast alert on swine flu (H1N1 virus) from the Marion County Health Department. The message was of ...
May 05, 2009 |
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No evidence to raise pandemic flu alert level to phase six: WHO + Latest snapshot of swine flu crisis
The World Health Organisation on Thursday said there was no evidence to suggest that it should raise a pandemic flu alert from phase five to the highest level of six.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2009 |
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How WHO measures a pandemic
The World Health Organization has six phases of pandemic alert to assess the potential for a new global flu outbreak.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Unique nerve-stimulation device proves effective against epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common medical condition characterized by convulsions and short periods of confusion. It affects more than 50 million people worldwide. But intractable epilepsy, which affects more than 1 million Americans and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Hyperactivity enables children with ADHD to stay alert, study
A new University of Central Florida study may explain why children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder move around a lot - it helps them stay alert enough to complete challenging tasks.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 09, 2009 |
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One-third of Americans lose sleep over economy
One-third of Americans are losing sleep over the state of the U.S. economy and other personal financial concerns, according to a new poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). The poll suggests that inadequate ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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