Woman jailed for causing Kidderminster nurse’s death in crash ‘suffered from sleep disorder’
PUBLISHED: November 14, 2016 9:41 am A woman who killed another motorist and seriously injured his passenger after potentially falling asleep at the wheel has been jailed. Stuart Frost Shirley Glover’s Volvo XC60 veered onto the wrong side of the A450, near Kidderminster, smashing head-on into an MG3, killing driver Stuart Frost. Glover, aged 50, had failed to notify the DVLA that she suffered with obstructive sleep apnoea, a condition that can cause tiredness. She had been diagnosed in 2014 and was given medical advice to avoid driving when tired. She should also have contacted the DVLA as her …
This Election Had Medical Consequences—And I Gave Them a Name
Published on November 14, 2016 A sleep disorder specialist coins the term “Election Dysthymia” to describe her patients who couldn’t sleep because of the election and the anxieties that underlay it, reports The Daily Beast. More times than I can count, I instructed my patients to discontinue watching politics or news well before bedtime, to disengage from their social media feeds and to create a sanctuary free of politics and media in order to regain some solace. Too many people were becoming both sleep deprived and angry or irritated and anxious at just the times they need to be able …
JADA Looks at How Alcohol, Caffeine, Tobacco, Drug Abuse Relate to Sleep Bruxism.
November 11, 2016 Alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine could facilitate or exacerbate sleep bruxism, according to a systematic review featured in the November issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association. Researchers investigated the association between sleep bruxism and alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, and drug abuse by assessing seven studies with samples ranging from 51 to 10,229. The authors concluded that, on the basis of limited evidence, sleep bruxism was associated positively with alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco. Furthermore, the association between abused drugs with sleep bruxism remained without sufficient evidence. “If a patient shows signs and symptoms of sleep bruxism, a …
Nasal obstruction may be the cause of your restless sleep, snoring.
Posted on Nov. 11, 2016 By Joseph Shvidler, MD Nasal obstruction is one of the most common complaints that is evaluated and treated by otolaryngologists (also known as ear, nose and throat, or ENT, doctors). Some ENT doctors have additional training in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, a training in which they use their surgical skills in the area of cosmetic, functional and reconstructive surgery on the nose and face. What causes nasal obstruction? Nasal obstruction can be caused by many factors: environmental allergies, deviated nasal septum, enlargement of inferior turbinates (balloon-like tissues inside the nasal cavity that control …
How the End of Daylight Saving Time Can Affect Health.
By GILLIAN MOHNEY | Nov 6, 2016, 6:36 AM ET http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/daylight-saving-basics-37557125 This Sunday, nearly everyone in the U.S. will need to set back their clocks one hour as daylight saving time comes to an end. While this means an extra hour of sleep, surprisingly it can also take a toll on health. An extra hour of sleep can be a welcome respite for many people. But it can also disrupt normal sleep patterns, which puts strain on the body. The change in schedule can throw off the body’s internal clock, or circadian rhythm, Dr. Samuel Friedlander, assistant clinical professor …
6 Online Options for Insomnia Therapy.
Published on December 11, 2014 There aren’t enough practitioners of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) to allow for all sufferers in need of the gold-standard treatment to get in-person help, but online programs can fill some patients’ needs. We profile online CBT-I options, including the peer-reviewed research that supports their programs, their effectiveness data, and price points. By C.A. Wolski CBTforInsomnia.com Information source: Gregg D. Jacobs, PhD Launched: 2005 Created by: Jacobs, a CBT-I and sleep specialist, based on his 20 years of research and clinical practice in sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. Development: CBTforInsomnia.com was developed from …
How lack of sleep changes your PERSONALITY.
Just one restless night can make you emotionally detached, irrational, and willing to risk a lot. In 1959, New York DJ Peter Tripp stayed awake 200 hours for charity The impact of his ‘wakeathon’ was far more dramatic than expected Doctors are still learning about why it changed him so much Jakke Tamminen, a psychology lecturer at Royal Holloway, explains By JAKKE TAMMINEN FOR THE CONVERSATION PUBLISHED: 14:04 EST, 17 October 2016 | UPDATED: 14:47 EST, 17 October 2016 In 1959, Peter Tripp, a popular New York DJ, pledged to stay awake for 200 hours for charity while …
Screening Tools for Sleep Apnea Less Accurate in Women Who Are Pregnant.
Clinical Anesthesiology OCTOBER 19, 2016 San Francisco—There is a growing body of literature demonstrating that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is directly linked to an increase in adverse maternal and fetal complications. Although there are a number of OSA screening tools available, they have been found to be less accurate in pregnant women, making OSA diagnosis and treatment even more challenging in these patients. “There are more and more papers in the literature regarding OSA and pregnancy,” said Mahesh Nagappa, MD, assistant professor of anesthesia and perioperative medicine at Western University, in London, Ontario. “So we wanted to dig a little …
Senchyna: Exercise leads to better sleep.
by Kerry Senchyna – Maple Ridge News Maple Ridge posted Oct 12, 2016 at 12:00 PM Sleep disruption has a variety of causes which can include stress, anxiety as well as a condition called sleep apnea. Lack of quantity and quality of sleep has profound consequences, which range from attention deficits, reduced concentration and mental processing, mental fatigue, as well as mood disorders, such as depression. About 70 per cent of North American adults report having trouble sleeping. However, exercise has been shown in past studies to help people attain better quality of sleep and recently more information about the …
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