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Chronic Pain can Impair Memory and Concentration

Chronic pain not only affects to work, sleep and performance of other activities but as it turns out, it can also impair your memory and your concentration. This is the finding of a team of Drs. Bruce D. Dick and Saifudin Rashiq at the University of Alberta. As a part study that was recent...

Wearing Mouth Appliance During Sleep may Help to Reduce Snoring

...be an effective way to reduce snoring and improve sleep apnea symptoms. The study found that patients wh...the pharyngeal airway in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and snoring problems. Forty-five percent of normal adults snore at least occasionally, and 2...

Research Suggests Breast Cancer Fatigue Begins Before Chemo

...herapy, they experience fatigue and disruptions in sleep and activity levels, according to a new study fro... the prevalence of fatigue associated with altered sleep and activity patterns before chemotherapy treatment. The study - published in the current issue of t...

Start School Later in the Morning, Say Sleepy Teens

...ager know: they are not getting enough sleep. More sleep would translate into improved academic performance... and that their grades would improve if they could sleep longer. Richard Schwab, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the study with his daug...

Sleep Apnea Patients Have Greatly Increased Risk of Severe Car Crashes

People with obstructive sleep apnea have a markedly increased risk of severe mot...on Sunday, May 20. The study of 800 people with sleep apnea and 800 without the nighttime breathing disorder found that patients with sleep apnea were twi...

Sleep Apnea may Increase Risk of Diabetes

...Medicine have found that patients with obstructive sleep apnea are at increased risk for developing of typ...ordered breathing. Each patient spent a night in a sleep laboratory to undergo a sleep study, called polysomnography. The researchers followed the subjects...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

... nighttime breathing disorder known as obstructive sleep apnea increases a persons risk of having a heart a...nference, on Monday, May 21. The more severe the sleep apnea at the beginning of the study, the greater the risk of developing heart disease or dying, the ...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

..."But if they continue to have anxiety not able to sleep at night, not wanting to go to school if these symptoms persist or if they continue to dwell on the incident or have flashbacks or uncontrolled obsessive thoughts about it, these are children who need a crisis assessment." Often parents will exace...

Circadian Clocks Triggered Chemical Reactions may Be Behind Jet Lag

...similar "switch" may be responsible for timing the sleep cycle in humans. "We were interested in trying to understand behavior at the molecular level. This a great example of chemical biology, in that we can perturb the chemistry of a single molecule in a particular way and actually change the behavior o...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Diabetes and Hypertension in Pregnant Women

...hat when the womens weight was taken into account, sleep apnea was associated with a doubling of the incide... pregnancy-induced hypertension. In obstructive sleep apnea, the upper airway narrows, or collapses, during sleep. Periods of apnea end with a brief parti...

Sacked Employee Says Stress Led to His Sex Addiction

... neglecting their work, school, families, food and sleep to surf the internet. Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, the academic behind the study, said that he was most concerned about the numbers of people who hid their nonessential internet use or used the internet to escape a negative mood, much in the same way tha...

Australian Children Sleep Less, Perhaps Not Well Monitored

...ing ever more hectic. With the result they tend to sleep less. A new study reveals that Australian children in the 10-15 year age group tend to sleep at least half an hour less every nigth when compared with just one generation ago. Increased part-...

Cot Death on Rise in Australia

...t the number of babies dying unexpectedly in their sleep was on the rise in Australia. The number of chil...rried that following advice to put their babies to sleep on their backs would result in their skulls failing to form properly, a condition known as plagiocep...

Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected

... step? Sleeplessness to sleepwalking to sex during sleep . It is possible, says, Carlos Schenck, a psychi...rrassed, especially with the weight gain. But with sleep sex, they're really ashamed, notes Schenck. Some disorders that can bring on abnormal sexual behav...

Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep

... The findings indicate a relationship between poor sleep quality and the functional performance, mental hea...ective symptom management," said Mystakidou. "Poor sleep quality must be taken into account when treating cancer patients. Clinicians must appreciate the oft...

Patients With OSA at Higher Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

...earchers have found that patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have higher levels of a type of dead ...function correlate with actual improvements in the sleep patterns of patients with OSA....

Koreans in Canada Feel Put Down by Subtle Racism

...rent or fight back violently, in any case dont any sleep over the White arrogance, Asians seem caught off guard. "It's easier to shrug off overt discrimination," Noh said. "You can attribute it to irrational behavior on the part of the other person. You don't have to examine yourself or the situation too...

Reduced Oxygen to the Brain Increases Alzheimers Risk in Stroke Victims

...en be an issue for people who snore heavily, whose sleep patterns are such that there will be times in the night when their brain is hypoxic deprived of sufficient oxygen. It can be anything that stops the heart and lungs working together to their optimal capabilities, Peers added. Researchers found tha...

Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine

...cation and caffeine, and getting treatment for any sleep problems....

Inadequate Sleep may Affect a Persons Diet.

...nfluence a persons diet. Those who dont get enough sleep are less likely to cook their own meals and, inste...pleted diaries, with each entry detailing how much sleep they got the night before and what they ate the following day. Preliminary findings showed that in...

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