Ask Well: Do Sleeping Pills Induce Restorative Sleep?
By KAREN WEINTRAUB | DECEMBER 11, 2015 5:45 AM Credit Stuart Bradford Q Is sleep induced by a benzodiazepine counted as restorative sleep? Reader Question • 489 votes A Researchers hate to admit it, but they don’t know enough about sleep to answer this question. Their best guess, several experts said, is that sleep is sleep. Dr. John Weyl Winkelman, a sleep disorders expert at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said if a patient asked him whether medicated sleep was restorative, “I’d say: ‘You tell me.’” There is quite a bit of evidence about the negative health consequences of insomnia, but …
8 Sleepwalking Stories That Will Give You Nightmares
By PPcorn – Dec 5, 2015 huffingtonpost.com Sleepwalking is an uncommon but well-documented phenomenon that many people find comical. However, some sleepwalking stories are so strange that they might make you afraid of ever sleeping again. Here, we present eight sleepwalking stories that will give you nightmare. Check them out for yourself below. Number Eight: The Divorce. In 2006, one Muslim man was sleeping next to his wife when he said the words “talaq” three times. “Talaq” translates to “divorce,” and saying it three times may be official grounds for separation. Because of this, the couple was forced to separate. Number Seven: …
Is It Safe For Medical Residents To Work 30-Hour Shifts?
Updated December 10, 20153:17 PM ET | Originally published December 7, 20154:50 AM ET Lorenzo Gritti for NPR Since 2003, strict rules have limited how long medical residents can work without a break. The rules are supposed to minimize the risk that these doctors-in-training will make mistakes that threaten patients’ safety because of fatigue. But are these rules really the best for new doctors and their patients? There’s been intense debate over that and some say little data to resolve the question. So a group of researchers decided to follow thousands of medical residents at dozens of hospitals around the country. …
A Bad Night’s Sleep Might Do More Harm Than You Think
Updated December 10, 2015 6:31 PM ET NURITH AIZENMAN It’s 11 at night in a busy commercial section of Chennai, a city of nearly 5 million in Southern India. All around me people are sleeping in the open air. Men are curled up in the back of rickshaw wagons. Entire families camp out in shelters made of cardboard and tarp. A woman in a blue sari smiles and waves for me to come over. Jane Marlen von Rabenau, a research associate at the lab, displays sleep aids the team is testing on participants, including an eye mask, earplugs, a …
A Good Night’s Sleep Is Tied to Interruptions, Not Just Hours
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: A study published last year in the journal Sleep Medicine found that even one night of fragmented sleep negatively impacts mood, attention span and cognitive ability to the same degree as restricting sleep to four hours in a night. Waking up often can cause bad moods and difficulty focusing and thinking What’s the Definition of A Good Night’s Sleep Much has been made about the importance of getting enough hours of sleep – the holy seven to eight hours a night. But what about the continuity of sleep? WSJ’s Sumathi Reddy reports. Photo: Corbis …
Study Finds Evidence of Placental Hypoxia in Mothers with Sleep Disordered Breathing
By PR Rocket on December 2, 2015 A recent study in the journal Pediatric and Developmental Pathology questioned whether sleep disordered breathing in pregnant women was associated with histopathological evidence of placental hypoxia. The research showed that sleep disordered breathing during pregnancy can be linked to fetal development. Lawrence, Kansas (PRWEB) December 02, 2015 Pediatric and Developmental Pathology – Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) can indicate reduction in airflow, habitual snoring, and obstructive sleep apnea. During pregnancy, SDB has been linked to complications such as gestational diabetes. Effects of SDB on the placenta are at the center of current research. A …
Sleep Apnea Devices Lower Blood Pressure.
Dec. 1, 2015 | 2:00 p.m. EST By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2015 (HealthDay News) — For those suffering from sleep apnea, the disrupted sleep and reduction of oxygen getting to the brain can contribute to high blood pressure, but the two common treatments for the condition both lower blood pressure, Swiss researchers report. A comparison of the treatments — continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and mandibular advancement devices (MADs) — showed that each produces a modest reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure rates, the researchers found. “CPAP and MADs not only reduce symptoms of …
Sleep disorders common on college campuses
By Abby Rinaldi, CO-NEWS EDITOR On November 29, 2015 USF is entering the last week of classes before finals week, a time of higher stress levels and less sleep. Some students will pull all-nighters studying notes, finishing projects or writing essays either at home or in the USF library, which is open 24/7 during finals. An article on collegestats.org stated all-nighters are “an accepted part of surviving college,” but warns against the effects of losing sleep. A simple Google search of keywords “sleep” and “finals” generates a slew of articles providing advice on how to get sleep during finals, or at …
Te Aroha’s Sleep Radio station helps with insomnia
TERESA RAMSEY | Last updated 14:48, November 12 2015 TERESA RAMSEY/FAIRFAX NZ | John Watson is hard at work at Sleep Radio HQ in Te Aroha. A bad case of insomnia has resulted in a not-for-profit online radio station designed to put listeners to sleep. John Watson founded Sleep Radio in Te Aroha a year ago after being diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety, which led to sleeplessness. “I’d lay in bed for hours and hours at night staring at the ceiling,” he said. “I had to do something about it.” With 18 years’ experience as a cinema projectionist and working in theatre, …
What My Father’s Death Taught Me About the Importance of Sleep
November 22, 2015 by Dr. Mark Burhenne If you could have told me in my thirties that my father would die of ALS at the age of 69, I never would have believed you. By all external measures, my dad was an extremely fit and healthy man. If anyone seemed like they could defy death, it was my dad. He was once one of the most celebrated radiologists in the United States. He taught at Harvard, wrote textbooks, and developed the Burhenne technique for removing gallstones. By all external measures, my dad was an extremely fit and healthy man. He …
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