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Activity Found To Improve Sleep In The Elderly

... active can help elderly patients who have trouble sleeping .For the study researchers enrolled // 12 healthy adults between the ages of 67 and 86 in a 90-minute daily activity program. The program consisted of 30 minutes of exercise followed by 30 minutes of seated social activity and another 30 minutes of e...

Laser Therapy Found To Help People Quit Smoking

...ss experienced. Patients also reported feeling and sleeping better after laser treatment....

Early rising from sleep can run in families

...advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) and involves sleeping early and rising early. This is said to be the phenotype of the gene PER2. The pattern is exhibited when there is a mutation in the phosphorylation site in the casein kinase I (CKI) domain of the gene. The behavior pattern is also known as first huma...

Brain mapping technique to explain sleep

...ficiency of this protein may lead to narcolepsy or sleeping sickness. Scientists of the study feel that how the orexin-producing neurons connect to other neurons, is the fact that will perhaps be able to explain how when a person gets up from sleep, tends to remain awake. By mapping the neurons it will be p...

Late sleeping may lead to diabetes

Research on sleeping habits of people has shown that late sleeping time may lead to glucose intolerance and// diabetes mellitus. Experimenting with sleep hours and sl...

Eating wrong foods may cause heartburns at night

...eep. This may mean that people with sleep apnea or sleeping disorders can also be at a risk of having heartburns....

High blood pressure during sleep may cause high blood sugar

... normal person blood pressure tends to lower while sleeping at night. However, drinking till late night, or sleep disturbances may elevate the nighttime blood pressures. The new research points out to the fact such higher levels of blood pressure at night may be the predictor for other health problems like ...

Depression and insomnia may be related

...s more chance of staying depressed if they are not sleeping well than their counterparts who have no sleep problems. Another sleep study suggests that as insomnia is common in the elderly population, the chances of them having depression is also as high as 6 times more than who have little or no sleep probl...

Short term hormone replacement therapy effective

...se like hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, sleeping disorders etc. The research conducted by WHI is one of the largest and most statistically valid study of HRT done till date. The data for the study reveals that for women with severe vasomotor symptoms from estrogen deficiency can benefit from the s...

Children who snore may be hyperactive by nature

...hown that the behavior problems may improve as the sleeping patterns of the children improve with age or treatment. Reference: Sleep, July 2005...

Sleep Not Critical For Early Brain Development Of Baby Dolphins

...aybe the natural response for their survival. Not sleeping also keeps them active and responsive allowing them to breathe oxygen at the surface and help them to grow more rapidly. Conventionally it is believed that sleep is critical to early development. Most of the mammals so far studied sleep and rest af...

Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

... between sharing a bed, researchers concluded that sleeping with parents can put extra stress on the infant apart from being too close to the pillow or the blanket. Reference: The Journal of Pediatrics, July 205...

Insomnia is not normal for the elderly

Problem faced by the elderly people of sleeping less may be due to other reasons// than age itself. Research has found out that the loss of sleep that had been associated with increased age for the elderly population as normal may not be so normal at all. Instead, the findings of the research sho...

Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms

...se like hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, sleeping disorders etc. According to a research funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH), postmenopausal women may get back their menopausal symptoms once they stop their hormonal therapy. The women who had participated in the study had been taking the...

Three Tropical Parasites Genetic Code Unravelled

...tudy said that 60 million Africans are affected by sleeping sickness annually. “Perhaps only one in 20 of thes...most rudimentary sort,” he said, adding, “Treating sleeping sickness is like a form of medical Russian Roulette because you don’t know who will be saved or kill...

Sleep pattern to lead to depression

...sturbances that many depressed people have such as sleeping for longer periods than usual or having insomnia or difficulty to sleep, are apparent to patient and families, but falling into REM sleep quickly, known as 'short REM latency' is not common. It takes the technology of a sleep laboratory to find short...

Uganda Reports Failure To Contain Sleeping Sickness

...reports that all the efforts to curb he disease of sleeping sickness is not working. The report on this topic ...t. The epidemic of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping // sickness in eastern Uganda began in 1998 as a result of the movement of the livestock reservoir o...

Timing Of Women's Labor May Determine Effectiveness Of Pain Medication

...ythm, shorter-than-24-hour-cycles, which determine sleeping and eating patterns and can also affect blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Some rhythms are controlled by sunlight and others are controlled internally. The researchers found that women who labored between noon and 6 p.m. got an avera...

Children With ADHD May Just Be Sleepy

...rities and limb movements treated, to enforce good sleeping habits and avoid giving them caffeinated drinks at night. Only if these steps do not work, they say, should parents consider medication for ADHD. Source: Newswise ...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

...ce. A number of factors have been identified for sleeping with kids including the inability to afford a safe...utting babies to sleep in a separate but proximate sleeping atmosphere such as a crib, bassinet or cradle that is located in the parent’s bedroom. This arrangem...

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