FMCSA Announces Meetings on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Recommendations
Published on October 20, 2016 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announces a joint meeting of its Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC) and Medical Review Board (MRB) on Oct 24, 2016. According to regulations.gov, the MRB will report on its revised recommendations on obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) based on its evaluation of the comments from the joint Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that the FMCSA issued with the Federal Railroad Administration. Additionally, the MCSAC will discuss how the implementation of these recommendations may impact current and future populations of drivers. On Oct 25, the MCSAC will meet …
What Sleep Tracking Apps Can and Can’t Tell You.
Beth Skwarecki | 10/13/16 10:00am Activity trackers and sleep tracking apps will happily give you stats on your sleep: How many hours you were in the sack, for example, and whether that sleep was good “quality.” But you can’t take those numbers at face value, and some of them are flat out wrong. Sleep Trackers Don’t Really Analyze Your Sleep (Even If They Say They Do) We talked to Dr. W. Christopher Winter, a specialist in sleep medicine and neurology and author of The Sleep Solution. Dr. Winter previously brought Fitbit, Jawbone, and phone-based trackers to his sleep lab, …
Required sleep apnea tests for truckers does not violate the ADA – 8th Circuit
By Brendan Pierson A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit by a truck driver claiming trucking company Crete Carrier Corp discriminated against him by requiring him to be tested for sleep apnea because of his weight and firing him when he refused. The ruling, handed down Wednesday by a unanimous three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, found that the Nebraska-based company’s policy was justified by “obvious safety concerns.” …
The Surprising Reason You’re Sleepy All Day.
SAM BAILEY Last updated 09:45, May 6 2016 Slumping over your desk well before it’s appropriate to knock off? Before you blame those early starts, central heating or the “3pm effect” for the uncontrollable yawning, there might be another reason at work. And it’s not what you might expect. Latest research from Penn State College of Medicine has found obesity and depression are the leading causes of chronic drowsiness. The study, as published in the SLEEP Journal, analysed 1300 people over 7.5 years and found those who were obese and depressed showed higher sleep disturbances and excessive levels of daytime sleepiness (EDS). …
What To Do If You’re Struggling To Sleep
September 26, 2016 Many people have trouble sleeping, at least sometimes. Symptoms of insomnia are the most common sleep disorder and affect about one third of Americans at some point in their lives. Many people have trouble sleeping, at least sometimes. Symptoms of insomnia are the most common sleep disorder and affect about one third of Americans at some point in their lives. But chronic insomnia — when trouble sleeping persists for more than a month, and alters how you feel and perform during the day — is different, and affects about 8 to 10 percent of …
Sleep injustice: When your income, job and where you live make sleep hard to get.
ABC Health & Wellbeing By Lisa Cox Posted 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm Updated 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm It’s not hard to imagine how noise, the weather, an unsettled child or a bad day at work could influence how you sleep. But what about where you live, your ethnicity, your education, or your income? Would a factory shift worker from a non-English speaking background who lives in a rough part of town be more likely to have poor sleep than a professional from a well-to-do suburb earning a stable income? Not withstanding the sleep-disrupting pressures …
When worries stop sleep and then you worry about not sleeping.
By Cathy Johnson Posted yesterday at 21:07 Updated yesterday at 21:42 Being awake at an ungodly hour, your mind a tangle of anxious thoughts, is a wretched experience. Whether you’re thinking about work or family worries, the events of the day, or tasks you face tomorrow, it tends to kill off the chance of sleep. It’s a common problem, with “thoughts” second only to “needing to go to the toilet” in the list of sleep disrupters identified by the 20,018 people who completed the ABC’s Sleep Snapshot survey a few weeks ago. And when asked to describe in their …
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