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Weight loss reduces obstructive sleep apnoea in obese men, with the greatest effect seen in patients with severe disease, according to new research published in the British Medical Journal today. http://www.physorg.com/news179134032.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:10:02 EST news179134032 A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that short, unpleasant, dreamlike mental activity occurs during sleepwalking and sleep terrors episodes, suggesting that people with these sleep disorders may be acting out dreamlike thoughts. http://www.physorg.com/news178868166.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:40:01 EST news178868166 Three quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders that often become chronic conditions, hindering patients' ability to fully recover, according to scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. http://www.physorg.com/news178216873.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:02 EST news178216873 British man killed his wife in his sleep, after dreaming that she was an intruder in their camper van, a court heard on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177696252.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:07 EST news177696252 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hours of analysing snoring sounds have paid off for a group of researchers from The University of Queensland and Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news177103046.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:20:05 EST news177103046 New research shows that Caucasian women may suffer from restless legs syndrome (RLS), a sleep disorder characterized by the strong urge to move the legs, up to four times more than African-American women. The study, presented at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), found that, overall, non-African-American (NAA) patients experienced RLS four times more often than African-Americans (AA). Furthermore, 2 out of 5 Caucasian women were found to have RLS, nearly four times the incidence of RLS in African-American women and the highest incidence among all groups. http://www.physorg.com/news176395037.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:37:52 EST news176395037 (AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. http://www.physorg.com/news176059549.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:26:36 EST news176059549 Today, at IEEE EMB Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre present the clinical validation of a wireless sleep staging system. http://www.physorg.com/news171128091.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:00:04 EST news171128091 A study in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Sleep indicates that children have an increased risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) if they have at least one sibling who has been diagnosed with the sleep disorder. http://www.physorg.com/news168326976.html Medicine & Health Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:50:01 EST news168326976 The fuzzy pale mold that lines the glass tubes in Dr. Yi Liu's lab doesn't look much like a clock. But this fungus has an internal, cell-based timekeeper nearly as sophisticated as a human's, allowing UT Southwestern Medical Center physiologists to study easily the biochemistry and genetics of body clocks, or circadian rhythms. http://www.physorg.com/news163700594.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:24:15 EST news163700594 Men with insomnia and sleep duration of six or fewer hours of nightly sleep are at an increased risk for mortality, according to a research abstract that will be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. http://www.physorg.com/news163645939.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:12:48 EST news163645939 According to a research abstract that will be presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, white Americans are more likely to report experiencing excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) more days per month than Asians, African Americans and Hispanics, but African Americans experience more severe EDS. http://www.physorg.com/news163645701.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:09:00 EST news163645701 Primary care pediatricians may be under-diagnosing sleep disorders in children and teens, according to new research. http://www.physorg.com/news163645594.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:07:26 EST news163645594 (PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain`s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Yang Dan of the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.physorg.com/news160407260.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 14:34:46 EST news160407260 A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that adolescents with a childhood diagnosis of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are more likely to have current and lifetime sleep problems and disorders, regardless of the severity of current ADHD symptoms. Authors suggest that findings indicate that mental health professionals should screen for sleep problems and psychiatric comorbidities among all adolescents with a childhood diagnosis of ADHD. http://www.physorg.com/news160382947.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 07:49:46 EST news160382947 Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a major cause of disease and injury. People who suffer from disturbed sleep have an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, hypertension, obesity, depression, and accidents. Nearly a fifth of all serious car crashes, in fact, are linked to sleeplessness. http://www.physorg.com/news159023422.html Other Sciences Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:10:49 EST news159023422 A new study shows both obesity and a large belly appear to increase the risk of developing restless legs syndrome (RLS), a common sleep disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move your legs. The research is published in the April 7, 2009, print issue of Neurology(R), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news158254550.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:14 EST news158254550 Good sleep equals good health, says Raul Noriega, manager of the Comprehensive Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Center at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Yet more than half of women report problems with insomnia. According to the National Sleep Foundation, `women`s lack of sleep affects nearly every aspect of their time-pressed lives, leaving them late for work, stressed out, tired and with little time for friends.` What`s going on? There are several factors, Noriega says, and all relate to poor sleep hygiene. http://www.physorg.com/news156620879.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:48:31 EST news156620879 In 2005, a woman who had trouble sleeping asked Siong-Chi Lin, M.D., for help. Dr. Lin, a sleep disorders specialist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida, diagnosed restless legs syndrome. This common neurologic disorder interrupts sleep because of unpleasant sensations in the legs at rest, especially in the evening, that are temporarily relieved by movement. http://www.physorg.com/news152898967.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:56:54 EST news152898967 Lack of sleep is a common complaint but for many, falling asleep involuntarily during the day poses a very real and dangerous problem. A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) at McGill University demonstrates interestingly, that sleep-wake states are regulated by two different types of nerve cells (neurons), melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons and orexin (Orx) neurons, which occupy the same region of the brain but perform opposite functions. http://www.physorg.com/news152383053.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:38:01 EST news152383053 There are no sheep keeping Mari A. company at bedtime. Rather, she counts thoughts of layoffs, mortgage payments and plummeting stocks. Her insomnia started back in November, when the economy hit a critical low. Restless, she manages to fall asleep but wakes up in the middle of the night and is unable to drift back into a slumber. http://www.physorg.com/news150654506.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:28:26 EST news150654506 Sleep disorders are very common in modern society. Mild forms are familiar to everyone and up to 10 - 20 per cent of adults suffer from related diseases (organic sleep disorders). Diagnosing sleep disorders often requires extensive and expensive sleep recording at a sleep laboratory. At the moment, there are hardly any good screening methods for detecting sleep disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news141395438.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:30:38 EST news141395438 Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative quantitative analysis, signal-processing technology and computer algorithms to work in the sleep lab. One of their recent findings is that a new approach to analyzing sleep fragmentation appears to distinguish fibromyalgia patients from healthy controls. http://www.physorg.com/news139662616.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:10:16 EST news139662616 Biologists at the University of Virginia have discovered a switching mechanism in the eye that plays a key role in regulating the sleep/wake cycles in mammals. http://www.physorg.com/news138024162.html Biology Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:02:42 EST news138024162