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Playing Didgeridoo can cure sleep apnoea

...ion that makes their throat close, causing them to wake up in the middle of the night. But playing the Aboriginal wind 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...

Christmas turkey? Anyone?

...to place their orders for Christmas turkeys in the wake of fears of bird flu. However, the dreaded disease has not stopped the British and the Germans from buying their usual Christmas turkeys // this year, say industry sources. In France, bulk buyers such as restaurants and retailers are cautious in...

A cholesterol warning for young adults

In a starling and wake up call study it has been found that young adults are not all worried about their cholesterol levels in blood. // This is the analysis based on a 10 year study. What is surprising is that cholesterol health is better in middle-aged to older adults...

EU medical chief says Europe ready for bird flu

...Europe's healthcare infrastructure. People need to wake up now.' he said. The ECDC, set up in May to pool expertise and help coordinate the EU's national public health authorities, also recommends that children who come in to contact with infected birds receive reduced doses of antiviral medicine accord...

Face transplant woman has new graft

...ds as her labrador Tania anxiously pawed at her to wake her after an overdose of tablets. But it will be six months before she gains full feeling and movement. There is also the risk of a psychological reaction to having another person’s face. And she must take drugs all her life to stop her body reje...

CPHA Offers HIV Information Packages To Canadian Football League Teams

...tion following what it calls misinformation in the wake of the arrest of a Saskatchewan Roughriders player who police say is HIV positive. Saskatchewan middle linebacker Trevis Smith has been charged with aggravated sexual assault under a section of the Criminal Code that, in part, deals with an HIV-posi...

Tiagabine Enhances Sleep Maintenance In Insomnia Patients

...at tiagabine increased slow wave sleep and reduced wake after sleep onset in a dose-dependent manner. Tiagabine dosages up to 8 mg did not compromise next-morning alertness and psychomotor performance in adult patients with primary insomnia. Further investigation of tiagabine doses up to 8 mg is warranted...

Depression May Be A Risk Factor For Cancer Initiation

...of life’s most distressing events, bringing in its wake the possibility of depression, which is an understandable, and normal, reaction to the disease, but could have grave consequences. Because of // such an association, depression has been considered to have an impact not only on the progression, but al...

Wisdom Teeth: To Be Or Not To Be?

One fine day you wake up and find that the area behind your last tooth is swollen and tender to touch and you are unable to swallow. Panic leads you nice and early to knock the doors of your dentist's office.// He/She tells you that it is your wisdom tooth that is trying ...

More About The Coffee Bean Than Just A Heavenly Taste and Smell

Most of the people in South India wake up to the lovely smell of homemade filter coffee. There is more reason to celebrate for these coffee lovers now, with firm evidence from recent research. // Coffee provides more than just a morning jolt and has been found to contain substances call...

With New Drug To Fight Against Sleeping, Your Increment Is Not Far Away

...humans of sleep for long enough you find you can't wake them up and no drug will change that." We often don't take enough care about how well we sleep. Nearly one third of our life is spent in sleeping. So it is important that we get enough quality and quantity of sleep to help get through the day. If y...

Sleep Not Critical For Early Brain Development Of Baby Dolphins

... newborn bottlenose dolphins and killer whales are wake most of the time in the first month. Their moms manage with only a wink or two than the newborns. This is perhaps because there are no safe places where an animal could curl up and rest and not worry about their predators. This maybe the natural resp...

Sleep more to improve your memory

...d the inactive parts of the brain during sleep and wake times and how that contributes to memory. When a person gets the information inputs a new memory is formed. However these memories may be only short term and in order to make them long term, they need to be embedded in the memory system. This happen...

Drug addiction can be genetical, says study

...the Clock gene apart from regulating our sleep and wake patterns also regulates a number of things like hormone levels, blood pressure, heart functions, body temperature, and currently established addiction to drug intake. The gene regulates the inherent vulnerability to drug addiction by rewarding the ex...

Delay medicine for early epilepsy, says scientists

...by the previous treatment. The study comes in the wake of the long drawn controversy regarding early treatment being beneficial or not or the people suffering from epilepsy. The study was published in the current issue of The Lancet....

In Early Epilepsy Delay in medications Recommended

...by the previous treatment. The study comes in the wake of the long drawn controversy regarding early treatment being beneficial or not or the people suffering from epilepsy. The study was published in the current issue of The Lancet. Reference: The Lancet, June 2005...

Sleep cycles may be related to metabolism

...It is this clock that sets the rhythm of sleep and wake patterns in all animals. In earlier studies, scientists had been able to find out that circadian clock controls sleep, hunger and other biological processes from the brain structure of thalamus. There also been an association between disrupted slee...

Improving Lighting Could Bring About A Change In Alzheimer's Patients

... patterns most by going outside shortly after they wake up. Besides researchers say natural sunlight is the cheapest way to get more light because even on a cloudy day, natural sunlight is three-times brighter than internal room lighting ....

Report on the Safety and Effectiveness of Melatonin supplements

...ult to fall asleep until very late at night and to wake up early the next morning. But melatonin supplements may decrease sleep onset latency—the time it takes to fall asleep after going to bed—in persons with primary sleep disorders such as insomnia, although the magnitude of the effect appears to be lim...

Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

...ealthy homemade breakfasts. That's news enough to wake up 15 minutes earlier everyday to make time for a nutritious breakfast and a more productive day!...

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