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Australians make Antarctic history

Two Australian adventurers have made Antarctic history by becoming the first team to travel unaided to the South Pole and back, surviving three months of "extreme hardship", they said on Friday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Couch potato or elite athlete? A happy medium keeps colds at bay

Battling colds and doing (or pledging to do) more exercise are familiar activities for most of us in January. But different levels of exercise can actually significantly increase or decrease your chances of catching a respiratory ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protecting our brains: Tackling delirium

A new national plan of action provides a roadmap for improving the care of patients with delirium, a poorly understood and often unrecognized brain condition that affects approximately seven million hospitalized Americans ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Teen sleep deprivation related to weight gain

Sleeping less than 8 hours a night may be linked to weight gain in teens, shows a new study presented at CHEST 2011, the 77th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Furthermore, obesity was linked ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If you don't snooze, do you lose? Wake-sleep patterns affect brain synapses

An ongoing lack of sleep during adolescence could lead to more than dragging, foggy teens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How much sleep's enough? Navy wants to know

It is unarguable that lack of sleep can affect cognitive and motor performance, but the U.S. Navy wants to know what happens when exposure to motion is also a factor.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Working together can help battle effects of fatigue

Fatigue can lead to dangerous errors by doctors, pilots and others in high-risk professions, but individuals who work together as a team display better problem-solving skills than those who face their fatigue alone, new research ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Interrupted sleep takes toll on memory formation, study says

A new study seems to confirm what exhausted parents have long suspected but may have been too tired to articulate:

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Sleep deprivation in doctors

Sleep deprivation is an issue that affects practising physicians and not only medical residents, and we need to establish standards for maximum work and minimum uninterrupted sleep to ensure patient safety, states an editorial ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obstructive sleep apnea linked to cancer growth in mice

A new study links the intermittent interruption of breathing that occurs in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to enhanced proliferation of melanoma cancer cells and increased tumor growth in mice, according to researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Short sleepers at higher risk of diabetes and heart disease

People who sleep less than six hours a night may be three times more likely to develop a condition which leads to diabetes and heart disease, according to researchers at the University of Warwick.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain responds same to acute and chronic sleep loss

Burning the candle at both ends for a week may take an even bigger toll than you thought. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that five nights of restricted sleep--four hours a night--affect the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Family meals, adequate sleep and limited TV may lower childhood obesity

A new national study suggests that preschool-aged children are likely to have a lower risk for obesity if they regularly engage in one or more of three specific household routines: eating dinner as a family, getting adequate ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hyperactivity associated with short sleep-time for young boys: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hyperactive boys don't get enough sleep, which can worsen their condition according to new research. Published in the November issue of Pediatrics, the study is the first to examine a larg ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists search for sleepless souls suffering lifelong insomnia

Most people have experienced the odd sleepless night before a crucial exam, a job interview or before going on holiday, but few people get by with just a couple of hours of sleep a day, every day.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1