The Companies That Teach Their Employees How To Sleep.
JUL 31, 2016 @ 11:43 PM Andrew Cave , CONTRIBUTOR Question: What do camera-maker Olympus, accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers , Shire Pharmaceuticals, Unilever and Cambridge University have in common. Answer: They are all sending employees on courses to teach them how to sleep. Before you reach for your copy of Brave New World or do a Google search on neural reprogramming, rest assured. Guy Meadows doesn’t mind what employees dream about or hear while they are sleeping. However, the sleep physiologist has become increasingly concerned that employees are not getting the sleep they need to perform their duties to the levels …
Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Melatonin For Sleep.
Mar 22, 2016 | 11:45 AM By Korin Miller Melantonin has become a popular sleep aid supplement, but experts say it’s probably not your best bet if you’re having trouble sleeping. Melatonin has become a popular sleep aid for people who have trouble catching their zzz’s but don’t feel comfortable taking medication. But, even though it’s sold in the seemingly-innocuous vitamin section, experts say you should think twice before reaching for the supplement—especially if you plan to use it regularly. Melatonin is a hormone produced by your brain’s pineal gland. Your body starts producing it naturally when …
Obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia increases risk of workplace injury.
By: Emily Lunardo | Sleep | Wednesday, April 13, 2016 – 12:30 PM Obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia increase the risk of workplace injury. A Canadian study looked at workplace injury and obstructive sleep apnea, and found that the risk of injury increased with severity of obstructive sleep apnea. The researchers looked at over 1,200 sleep clinic patients and found that individuals with sleep apnea had double the risk of experiencing a workplace injury and were three times more likely to have an injury related to failed vigilance, such as tripping or falling. Study author Najib Ayas said, “A …
Less sleep, frequent snoring shorten breast cancer survival.
July 1, 2016 Short sleep duration and frequent snoring prior to cancer diagnosis may shorten OS among postmenopausal women with breast cancer. Amanda I. Phipps, MPH, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at University of Washington, and colleagues assessed the association between sleep characteristics prior to cancer diagnosis and subsequent cancer survival among postmenopausal women who participated in the Women’s Health Initiative. Amanda I.Phipps The analysis included data from 21,230 Women’s Health Initiative participants, in whom a first primary invasive cancer had been diagnosed during follow-up. All women had provided information about sleep characteristics at baseline. Phipps and colleagues used …
How insomnia makes us sick, and how to put the problem to rest.
BY MEG HASKELL, BDN STAFF FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH 2016 Corky Potter of Orono sits with a head full of electrodes that will monitor his brain activity while undergoing a sleep study at St. Joseph Healthcare Center for Sleep Medicine in Bangor. (Ashley L. Conti | BDN) (BDN) — There’s nothing like a good night’s rest to get you off to a fresh start on a new day. But for many people, especially those in middle age and older, that sweet sleep is an elusive dream. Jann Jones, 62, of Glenburn remembers clearly the last solid night of sleep she …
Bedtime should be the same time year-round, say sleep experts
By Leslie Mann | Chicago Tribune July 25, 2016 10:07 AM There’s not much they can do about Independence Day, said Eric Bennion of the no-matter-what, 9 p.m.-bedtime rule he and his wife, Shelly, impose on their sons, William, 12, and Walker, 10. “The fireworks don’t start until later, so that’s one day we make an exception,” said Eric Bennion, 40, of Downers Grove. RELATED: TRENDING LIFE & STYLE NEWS THIS HOUR Otherwise, the best way they can protect their kids’ sleep, despite the starting and stopping of school and activities, is to have them go to bed and …
Driver who fell asleep and crashed into police car gets $2,500 fine and 12-month driving ban.
PUBLISHED JUL 25, 2016, 3:51 PM SGT Amir Hussain SINGAPORE – A 51-year-old driver, who has a sleep disorder, crashed into a police car along an expressway when he fell asleep behind the wheel in December last year, a court heard. Sarudin Nasir had slept for just 1½ hours the night before. The accident caused the police car to hit an Aetos auxiliary police motorcycle; two policemen in the car were injured. On Monday (July 25), the motorist was fined $2,500 and barred from driving for 12 months. He pleaded guilty to one charge of doing a negligent act which …
Surgery Risk for Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published on July 29, 2016 Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) face an elevated risk of perioperative complications; the risk is even higher if the diagnosis has not been made before surgery. This is so for many OSA patients, as Philipp Fassbender and colleagues point out in a review in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. In these patients with OSA, sedation and anesthesia weaken the activation of the airway-opening muscles just as sleep does, potentially leading to airway obstruction. This elevates the risk of perioperative complications—eg, because of difficult intubation—in patients with OSA. Thus, as the authors stress, it …
Acupressure for Insomnia
By: Michelle Schoffro Cook | July 22, 2016 If you’re tired of sheep-counting and lying awake due to insomnia, rest assured you can take matters into your own hands in the form of acupressure. You can easily massage these points on your own hands or body or ask a partner to massage the points on your hands or body, depending on the point locations. These healing points are also called acupoints. When pressed or massaged, these points can induce therapeutic functions that are specific to each point. While there are many excellent points to use for insomnia, here are …
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