Wife who was fed up with her husband’s snoring is charged with attempted murder after stabbing him with a butcher’s knife as he slept
Dawn Weiser, 44, left her husband with a punctured spleen, lacerated liver and three other stab wounds She plead not guilty in court on Wednesday Doug Weiser managed to fight his wife off him and call police By PAUL THOMPSON PUBLISHED: 12:22 EST, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 14:04 EST, 4 October 2013 An Arkansas woman who was fed up with her husband’s incessant snoring has been charged with attempted first degree murder after repeatedly stabbing him in his sleep with a butcher’s knife. Dawn Weiser, of Springdale, plead not guilty in court on Wednesday after leaving her husband with a punctured spleen, lacerated liver …
Pilots snoozed at 30,000 feet in cockpit of 300-passenger plane
By Thom Patterson, CNN updated 6:47 PM EDT, Thu September 26, 2013 UK probes whether pilots slept at same time (CNN) — Cruising at 30,000 feet, pilots snoozed in the cockpit of a 300-passenger airliner en route to Britain last August, UK aviation authorities told CNN on Thursday. A spokesman for the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority tells CNN that the Airbus A330 incident occurred while the aircraft was operating on autopilot on a long-distance flight. The CAA wouldn’t reveal any other details of the flight, its route or its destination airport. Sources told CNN’s Richard Quest the airline is Virgin Atlantic. …
‘More than half’ of pilots have slept while flying
More than half of pilots have fallen asleep while in charge of a plane, a survey by a pilots’ union suggests. Of the 56% who admitted sleeping, 29% told Balpa that they had woken up to find the other pilot asleep as well. The survey comes after it emerged that two pilots on an Airbus passenger plane were asleep at the same time, with the aircraft being flown on autopilot. Balpa is campaigning against changes to flight-time regulations, which are to be voted on by the European Parliament. On Monday, new rules which include allowing pilots to land an aircraft after being …
Sleep Apnea Patients More Likely To Fail Simulated Driving Test, Study Says
Here’s another reason to make sure your snoring isn’t sleep apnea. According to a new study, people with sleep apnea — a condition where a person stops breathing for periods of time throughout the night, leading to disrupted sleep — were more likely to fail a driving simulator test and also reported falling asleep while driving more than people without the sleep condition. The study, conducted by researchers from the the University Hospital in Leeds and presented at the Sleep And Breathing Conference in Berlin, included two parts. The first part tested the driving ability of 133 people with untreated …
Children’s Sleep in Their Genes?
Children’s Sleep in Their Genes? How long kids sleep may be genetic, study finds By Children’s Health Team | 6/5/13 11:17 a.m. Your toddler’s sleep habits may be affected by both genetics and environment. Genes play an important role in how long your child sleeps at night, and environmental factors influence daytime naps, says a new study. But this doesn’t mean your child’s sleep habits are out of your control, researchers add. Jyoti Krishna, MD, did not take part in the study but treats pediatric sleep disorders at Cleveland Clinic. He says some children just don’t need as much sleep as others. “If the child isn’t …
Sleepwalking is fairly common, study finds
Links to depression, OCD, apnea seen By Janice Lloyd USA TODAY To sleep: perchance to sleepwalk, ah, that is not unusual after all, finds a study Monday in Neurology. About 30% of adults in the USA have experienced nighttime wanderings, and those with sleep apneas, psychiatric disorders, depression or obsessive-compulsive disorders are at higher risk, finds the study of 19,136 Americans ages 18 and older. Antidepressants, sleeping pills and certain other medications can increase the risk, but they appear to bring on events in people with a history of sleepwalking. “I would like to correct the impression that sleepwalking is …
Lack of Sleep May Increase Calorie Consumption
If people don’t get enough sleep, they may also eat too much—and thus be more likely to become obese. That is the finding of researchers who presented their study at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2012 Scientific Sessions.“We tested whether lack of sleep altered the levels of the hormones leptin and ghrelin, increased the amount of food people ate, and affected energy burned through activity,” said Virend Somers, MD, PhD, study author and professor of medicine and cardiovascular disease at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.The researchers studied 17 normal, healthy young men and women …
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