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Fungal spores in the pillows can trigger an asthma attack

...ck said, "Since people spend a third of their life sleeping and breathing close to a potentially large and varied source of fungi, these findings certainly have important implications for patients with respiratory disease - especially asthma and sinusitis." Dr Geoffrey Scott, chairman of the Fungal Research...

Fertility Treatment Offered During Summer Has Better Chances For Success

...is linked to the hormone melatonin, that regulates sleeping and walking cycles. It was believed that melatonin acted through the pituitary gland, which is "switched off" during IVF cycles, However, researchers have now found that melatonin is found in receptors throughout the reproductive system. Although ver...

Fluorescent markers to distinguish Trypanosoma brucei strains causing Sleeping Sickness

...l and economic interest in Africa. It causes human sleeping sickness, and Nagana, a cattle disease that prevents cattle farming and the use of work animals over huge areas of sub-Saharan Africa, thus profoundly affecting the economics of the entire continent. A recent study, to be published in Acta Tropica ...

Cholesterol provides immunity against infection by certain parasites

...arasites, including those that cause human African sleeping sickness, Nagana, and malaria. The research is crucial to finding creating better treatments, and possibly cures, for diseases that are ravaging the people and economies of places like Africa and other developing countries....

Sleep Disturbance in Atopic Dermatitis

... with the aim to evaluate sleep disturbance and co sleeping in young children with atopic dermatitis and evalu...is affected how well they or their child slept. Co sleeping because of the skin condition was reported by 30% of families, and most of these parents (66%) were ...

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...the health worker with basic equipment like infant sleeping bags and abacus for counting every 10 heartbeats in infant would considerably reduce the infant death rate as they found 18 causes of infant death, including malnutrition and the strange habit of starvation among expectant tribal mothers who believe ...

Teens not interested in early sleep

...p early in the morning resulting in a reduction in sleeping hours. Professor Carskadon has published her work in the Journal American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Researchers has found that as they children’s grow up they still don’t have the pressure of their parents who insist on them to go to bed early re...

Time magazine has recognized efforts of two Indian doctors towards reducing infant mortality rate

...ls and with some rudimentary equipment like infant sleeping bags and an abacus to record every 10 heartbeats could sort out these problems. The last but the very important step was the training and health education imparted to the health care workers who were able to manage a few of the reproductive and chi...

Negative Effects Of Sedatives

...ar patterns of sleep, accounting for 40 percent of sleeping pill prescriptions, but - importantly - because there isn't enough evidence-based research carried out on older people in this area, an expert Lorna Layward was quoted as saying. "The research reinforces the need for regular reviews of medicines f...

Being Lonely is gene regulated

...angerous which could lead to psychological stress, sleeping disorders, heart attacks and blood pressure. Lonely people mostly have the sense of not feeling important and depressed it is very necessary for them to have friendship with people who are more social character as it would help them to learn how to...

Toddlers Have Respiratory Trouble When Sleeping With Their Face Up

...versial data has been obtained regarding the ideal sleeping position for toddlers with a new study stating tha...rienced by children who have sleep apnea, a common sleeping disorder associated with respiratory trouble. The study observed nearly 60 toddlers during sleep...

Karla: healthy beer as claimed by German manufacturers

...even better than aspirin, as it is being used as a sleeping pill. Medical fraternity differs and says that beer is not healthy and advices chemists not to stock itIt would add to the growing trend of alcoholism in people, was the thought! Another beer with the name of “Xan” is already in the market and cali...

Sleeping disorder risk factor for heart attacks

...esearch laboratory have found that people who have sleeping disorders have an increased risk of developing hea...a have increased risk of stroke and treating their sleeping disorder can reduce the risk of developing stroke. The study was conducted in 1,475 people aged betw...

Newer Generation Sleeping Pills Lack Superior Performance

The increasing number of people resorting to sleeping pills for treatment of insomnia has no doubt promp... this wonderful gift, there are the new generation sleeping pills that substitute the previously used benzodiazepines. These new class of medications were intro...

Dummy Usage Raises Doubts.

...ths if dummies are used irrespective of the babies sleeping position. To this the Australian team has told t...ering their face. They also have a separate safe sleeping program exclusively for babies. Statistics show that this program has reduced cot deaths from 500 to...

Playing Didgeridoo can cure sleep apnoea

...nd instrument helped exercise the airways and made sleeping easier. Playing the didgeridoo requires a controlled breathing pattern, and researchers believed it could help train the upper airways to combat the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea. After hearing anecdotal reports of how playing the didgeri...

The “Enough Sleep” Project to study mechanism of sleep regulatin

...ythms and wakefulness which would help in treating sleeping disorders and mental disorders. The project is funded with ￡ 1.4 million for 3 years by the 6th Framework Program. The “Enough sleep” project combines the results obtained from both experimental data and clinical research and the project is collabora...

SIDS On The Rise Among Poor Families

...umber of infant deaths as a consequence of parents sleeping together// with their infant on a sofa has consid...ear, we strongly recommend that parents avoid this sleeping environment. Our data clearly show that SIDS is now largely confined to deprived families and if we ...

Sleeping Pill To Tackle Obesity Problem Also

A new sleeping tablet is being developed by scientists, which wil... The hormone orexin which is directly connected to sleeping disorders and paralysis will be targeted by the new pill. The pill has already been tested on rat...

Pill ‘o’ mania: Sleep of mind is priceles

...a new investigation by Forbes magazine. Instead of sleeping over the problem and allowing it to pass, the slee...Americans have serious problems falling asleep and sleeping sound. Some just can’t afford to sleep due to the demands of a compelling job. Sleep deprivation i...

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