News tagged with sleep disturbances
Trojan horse bacteria use nanobodies to conquer sleeping sickness
Sleeping sickness, caused by the trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, is transmitted to humans (and animals) via the bite of the tsetse fly. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Microbial Cell Factories ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Group recommends stricter noise levels for Michigan wind farms
As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Study: Restless legs may be a sign of heart risks
(AP) -- The nighttime twitching of restless legs syndrome may be more than an annoyance: New research suggests that in some people, it could be a sign of hidden heart problems.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Internet program reduces infant and toddler sleep problems, helps moms sleep better too
A study in the April 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that an Internet-based intervention was effective at reducing infant and toddler sleep disturbances, as well as providing positive, indirect benefits for matern ...
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Brief, individualized counseling improves sleep in older adults with insomnia
A brief behavioral treatment consisting of two in-person sessions and two phone calls appears to alleviate insomnia in older adults for at least six months, according to a report posted online today that will be published ...
Jan 24, 2011 |
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Mount Sinai develops first screening tool for war veterans to assess traumatic brain injury
A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has developed the first web-based screening tool for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). This instrument has recently been used by soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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The high price of sleep disorders
Danish sleep researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Institute for Health Services Research have examined the socio-economic consequences of the sleep disorder hypersomnia in one of the largest studies ...
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Doctors failing to prescribe low-dose menopausal hormone therapy, study finds
Doctors across the country are still prescribing higher-dose menopausal hormone therapy pills, despite clinical evidence that low doses and skin patches work just as well and carry fewer health risks. That's what researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Sleepless soldiers: Study suggests that military deployment affects sleep patterns
A study in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan significantly influenced sleep quality and quantity in a population of 41,225 military service personnel. The study suggests that t ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Sleep disturbances show clear association with work disability
Sleep disturbances increase the risk of work disability and may slow the return to work process. This is especially true in cases where work disability is due to mental disorders or musculoskeletal diseases. These results ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Ease into daylight savings time
With winter now behind us and the longer days of summer looming comes the annual switch to daylight saving time.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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After traumatic event, early intervention reduces odds of PTSD in children by 73 percent
After experiencing a potentially traumatic event - a car accident, a physical or sexual assault, a sports injury, witnessing violence - as many as 1 in 5 children will develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Circadian rhythms: Their role and dysfunction in affective disorder
All humans are synchronised to the rhythmic light-dark changes that occur on a daily basis. Rhythms in physiological and biochemical processes and behavioural patterns persist in the absence of all external 24-hour signals ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Proof that a gut-wrenching complaint -- irritable bowel syndrome -- is not in your head
Irritable bowel syndrome makes life miserable for those affected -- an estimated ten percent or more of the population. And what irritates many of them even more is that they often are labeled as hypochondriacs, since physical ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Pain, dry mouth may play role in sleep quality of head and neck cancer patients
Head and neck cancer patients who reported poor sleep quality one year after diagnosis had more symptoms of chronic pain and complaints of dry mouth related to radiation treatments, according to a recent ...
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Sleep disorder
A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. A test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders is the polysomnogram.
For more information about Sleep disorder, read the full article at
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