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Good Sleep Could Make You Slim

...ise, but if you want to become slim develop a good sleeping habit, suggests a new book after looking// at a host of new research. Sleepless nights significantly disrupt our hormones and metabolism, leaving us much more prone to overeating and weight gain, according to 'The Duvet Diet - Sleep Yourself Slim' w...

Babies can Choke While Sleeping in Car Seats.

...nd in New Zealand showed 90% of them had been left sleeping in the car seats. British Medical Journal published a study this week claimed that the positioning of babies in car seats could narrow their upper respiratory tracts. Parents complain of their child turning blue. Children’s heads were bent forward,...

More Americans Affected by Sleeplessness

...” Loredo states that people often seek help for sleeping problems after the holidays when they realize that...dy for some shut-eye. ? Stick with a consistent sleeping schedule. If you get thrown off one night because of a party, that’s fine. Make sure you resume your...

Telemedicine Offers New Possibilities in Health Care

..., pulse, heartbeat, oxygen level in the blood, and sleeping position. The data are transmitted via short-range radio with Bluetooth technology to a base station in the patient's home, which analyses them and sends them to the treating physician. All the patient needs is a telephone line. Heart patients wi...

Where Burnt Out Executives De-stress in Nature's Lap

...raised on bamboo stilts, besides jungle tents with sleeping bags - a delight for any adventurous tourists. Across the Jia Bhoroli is the Nameri National Park, which is also a tiger reserve. And by dusk the mood at the resort at Potasali is one of camaraderie with tourists joining in a lively song and danc...

Older Men With Stress Disorder Prone to Heart Attack Risk

...shbacks and nightmares. Relaxing, concentrating or sleeping may become difficult. They often feel detached or estranged from loved ones. Laura D. Kubzansky, of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues analysed data on 1,946 men from the Greater Boston area who served in the military, repo...

New Gadget to Treat Insomnia, Stress

...ttle gadget that can be used for 15 minutes before sleeping to treat insomnia and stress.// The device, developed by New York based company Helicor, is under clinical trial on 100 patients at Duke University. It enables users to lower their own heartbeat by regulated deep breathing, said the online edition ...

Disturbed Sleep and Heart Trouble Go Hand in Hand

... the same time every day. ? Use your bed only for sleeping or sex. ? If you can’t sleep, get out of bed. ? Go easy on alcohol and caffeine; avoid nicotine. ? Exercise in the late afternoon. Source-Newswise SRM...

Redundancies Boost Mental Health Problems for Those Who Keep Their Jobs

...including antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and sleeping pills (hypnotics). Almost 5,000 worked in “downsized” units, but kept their jobs in 1993 when the redundancies occurred. Just over 4,000 lost or left their jobs during the downsizing, while a further 17,600 escaped exposure to the process altogethe...

New AMA Tool Empowers Doctors to Work Safer Hours

...rs to track their work, on-call, recreational, and sleeping hours over a week, and determine whether their work arrangements are placing them at risk of serious fatigue. In a national survey last year, the AMA discovered close to two-thirds of hospital doctors were at significant or high risk of fatigue due...

Sleeping Sickness Comes to India

... insect vector is involved in transmission of both sleeping sickness and Chagas disease (3). Research continues aiming to unravel the transmission process and mechanisms by which the parasite adapts from animal hosts to humans. It should help determine whether or not this first recorded infection of T. evan...

Downsizing Affects All Workers

...including antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and sleeping pills in those workers. 4,800 among these worker... to be given a prescription. Men were prescribed sleeping pills whereas women were mostly prescribed anti-anxiety drugs, Kivimaki said. 'Policy makers, empl...

Take Fatigue Seriously - Says Researcher

...of energy, difficulty both in staying awake and in sleeping and complete social withdrawal. “It is important to recognize the difference between tiredness and fatigue, because fatigue is a marker that the body is not able to keep up,” says Olson. “The onset of the manifestations of fatigue, particularly if ...

Childhood Obesity Linked With Sleep

...deration. Specifically, the researchers found that sleeping an additional hour reduced young children’s chance...esults suggest that many American children are not sleeping enough,” said lead researcher Emily K. Snell of the School of Education and Social Policy and the In...

The FDA Warns Consumers Against Purchase of Drugs on Web

...ons over the Internet.// The drugs advertised as sleeping pills and anti depressants were in reality a powerful anti-psychotic, which would eventually land victims in hospitals. Federal health officials revealed that Ambien-a sleep aid, Xanax and Ativan- anti-anxiety medications and Lexapro an antidepress...

Rhythms of Life

...erived from our ancestors. Besides controlling our sleeping and feeding patterns, this daily rhythm controls m... the biological clock brings about irregularity of sleeping and feeding patterns besides giving rise to a series of other physical and psychological challenges....

Napping Beneficial For Hearts

... Although this may not be possible for everyone, sleeping for a few hours after the lunch break is reported to have a good effect on other factors as well. Perhaps the sleep invigorates the body and the person is able to handle stress better when his body is rested. JYT...

Pepsi to Put Caffeine Content on Labels

...as anxiety, palpitations, irritability, difficulty sleeping and stomach complaints," he said, urging for the clear labelling of the substance on all products. For the past decade, the US consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has been calling on FDA to require the disclosu...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...ns show that the easy access to extremely powerful sleeping tablets, painkillers and antidepressants are leading to an increasing number of people suffering form heart attacks, blindness and in some extreme cases, death. It is felt, that the rise of internet pharmacies, are also largely to blame for the epi...

Sleep Problems of Women

...uffering from insomnia or lack of sleep and taking sleeping pills. “This is not to say that mothers should not be in the workforce,” Lee said. “In fact, they are often the most productive, organized and efficient members of the staff. But it does point out the need for employers and our society as a whole t...

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