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Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep

...with stage four cancer are more prone to disturbed sleeping patterns due to factors such as pain, treatment side effects and psychological causes, according to a study published in the June 1st issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, conducted by Kyriaki Mystakidou, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University...

Cot Death on Rise in Australia

...e said. Doyle said education programs about safe sleeping practices for babies had reduced cot deaths from more than 500 in 1988 and some parents now felt that SIDS was no longer a risk. "It is of grave concern that 20 years on, the statistics seem to reveal there could be a growing level of complacency i...

Mutant Parasites, Unable to Infect Hosts, Highlight Virulence Genes

...e Toxoplasma and those that cause malaria, African sleeping sickness and water-borne diarrheal illnesses infect their hosts. "This screen highlighted genes not previously seen as virulence factors," says Knoll. From one mutant, Knoll's team pinpointed a gene that acts as a nuclear traffic cop, directing mol...

Australian Children Sleep Less, Perhaps Not Well Monitored

...gets in children's bedrooms had led to a change in sleeping patterns. 'Social trends would indicate that lights out is less likely to coincide with the onset of sleep among youth today,' he said. 'The results of this study underline the importance of routinely monitoring sleep behaviours of children and ado...

Impact of Periodontal Health High With Smoking and Sleeping

...estyle factors impact oral health like smoking and sleeping . A study in the May issue of the Journal of Periodontology identifies lifestyle factors that have the most impact on periodontal health. As a part of the study researchers followed a group of 219 factory workers in Japan from 1999 to 2003 in an...

Sleep Problems Haunts More in Children from Low Income Groups

...l, according to research. The study compared the sleeping habits of 64 healthy inner city children, who were African American and Hispanic, to the sleeping patterns of children from middle class, Caucasian families. The children were 4 to 10 years old. Par...

Study Reveals Little-known Cell Networks Vital to Circadian Rhythm

...r cycle that involves various behaviors, including sleeping and eating, in all living organisms. In mammals, the circadian clock is organized hierarchically in a series of multiple oscillators. At the top of this hierarchy, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a region of the brain that is the body"s main rhyt...

Naps in the Afternoon may Harm Your Kids

...738 children aged two to 12 about their children's sleeping habits in this study. "It could be that children are getting less sleep at night because they are napping, or they could be napping because they're getting less sleep at night," he said....

Drugs More Important Than Kids for Katona, Says Her Candy Man

...off to school because she was always on benders or sleeping off the effects, he said. "Her kids were always told to go to see the nanny if they ever wanted anything, he added. Ogden revealed that Katona dumped her kids for days to go on a bender once. The singer even asked the dealer once to put the dru...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...in the nose, ears, eating all the open wounds from sleeping on the concrete." The caretaker of the orphanage is on the run. The severely disabled children have since been moved to another clean, well-lit orphanage nearby, with smiling social workers, sun-drenched rooms, ceiling fans, and stuffed animals. B...

Individual Differences in Sleep Structure are Biologically Determined

...right away, while others take their time . Such sleeping pattern variability has long been attributed solel...ed laboratory environment. They spent eight nights sleeping for up to 12 hours. These nights were interspersed with three 36-hour sleep deprivation periodsthat ...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

...efinitively causes cancer patients to have trouble sleeping and staying awake, demographic factors and the type of cancer may be contributing factors," says Dr. Parker, Emory Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing professor, co-director of the Emory Sleep Center and study principal investigator. Symptoms s...

Smokers Blow Their Infants Health into Thin Air

...otinine levels increased further if the babies are sleeping with the parents or are in lower temperature rooms...oors in winter.' The researchers also noted that sleeping with a parent is a known risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). They suggest that one ...

Paris Hilton Gorging Roast Beef, Spaghetti and Meatballs in the Slammer!

... the 26-year-old is living in 'Lean Cuisine' style sleeping comfortably and eating roast beef, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken nuggets and fish that others would never get. The jailbird has recently been shifted to the medical clinic of the women's jail in Lynwood, California, from a Los Angeles jail hospi...

Scientists Have Invented New Device to Reap Fresh Water from the Air

...ve way dew gathers on leaves, spider webs, even on sleeping bags and tents, Cory and colleague Eyal Malka of Malka Architects designed a four-sided structure shaped like an inverted pyramid, with each panel about 10 feet tall. At night, dew drops bead up on both the tops and undersides of the panels. As d...

Frank Sinatra's Boozy Night Nap on Cop's Couch Exposed

...'s wife did not believe her hubby that a celeb was sleeping downstairs and could not even get a glimpse of him since he left in the morning....

C -reactive Protein is the Marker for Cardiovascular Disease

... to complete a questionnaire about their childrens sleeping habits. Responses indicating almost no likelihood of OSA and those indicating a high likelihood of OSA were randomly selected, and the children were invited to a sleep research center. Obese children were excluded from the study, because the condit...

World's First Face Transplant Patient Feels She is Alive Again

...ff by her dog while she was under the influence of sleeping pills in 2005, said she was struggling to deal with her new identity and the debt she owed her donor. "One part of me and my identity has disappeared forever, and I guard preciously the memory of what I was," she was quoted as saying. "This face ...

Insecticide-treated Bed Nets to Combat Malaria in Older Children and Adults

Researchers have found that sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets might protect older children and adults from malaria. Most human-to-mosquito transmission originates from adults and children over five years of age, who constitute the bulk of the population and are more attract...

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