From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital media release: Sleep disorders are independent risk factors for heart attacks and motor vehicle crashes, which are the two leading causes of death for… Read more »
From the BMJ-British Medical Journal media release: Dementia currently affects about 36 million people worldwide and this number is expected to double every 20 years, reaching 115 million by 2015…. Read more »
From the BMJ-British Medical Journal media release: Shift work, like chronic jet lag, is known to disrupt the body’s internal clock (circadian rhythms), and it has been linked to a… Read more »
From the University of North Carolina Health Care media release: Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered how two genes — Period and Cryptochrome — keep the circadian… Read more »
From the Henry Ford Health System media release: Pain can make it difficult for some patients to get a good night’s rest while recovering in the hospital following certain surgical… Read more »
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center media release: As people grow older, they often have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, and tend to awaken too early in the… Read more »
From the Drexel University media release: Being unemployed increases your risk of death, but recessions decrease it. Sound paradoxical? Researchers thought so too. While previous studies of individuals have shown… Read more »
From the TAU media release: The familiar cry in the night, followed by a blind shuffle to the crib, a feeding, a diaper change, and a final retreat back into… Read more »
From the University of Michigan Health System media release: Taking part in an educational sleep program resulted in a 30-minute average increase in sleep duration at a one-month follow-up for… Read more »
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine media release: A new study suggests that marijuana use is associated with impaired sleep quality. Results show that any history of cannabis use… Read more »
