Health and Fitness - Sleep -

IBN LIve - And contrary to popular opinion - less sleep is not better. An earlier study had found that people who slept about five hours a night had about a 40 percent higher rate of heart attacks than people who slept eight hours a night. And doctors in India

Matric exams: are the pupils ready?
South Africa Mercury - But there is nothing we can do now, except to study hard and do our best during the exams,” said Solomon Naidoo of Savannah She suggested they continue to put in extra hours, get enough sleep, exercise and eat healthily until their big moment. Last

Mums sleeping less than ever
News.com.au - NEW mothers get an average of three hours’ sleep a night, half as much as their own mothers did, a study has found. Modern dads don’t fare much better either, with at least half reporting that they tend to their children during the night, which is

Chocolate could be the cure for chronic fatigue syndrome
Daily Mail - Experts believe chocolate could have a significant impact on neurotransmitters, which help to regulate mood and sleep. The formulated chocolate used in the study in Hull, East Yorks., contained 85 per cent cocoa solids and was rich in polyphenol

The syndromes of Orthostatic Intolerance
European Society of Cardiology - on blocks to permit gravitational exposure during sleep. Additional benefit may then be achieved with agents that increase peripheral resistance and reduce the tendency for gravitational downward displacement of central volume. A controlled study

Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Caused By Allergies Rhinosinusitis
Best Syndication - (Best Syndication) People with nasal problems are more likely to suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), according to a study from Japan. Certain conditions, including obstructed nasal passages and sleep-disordered breathing, allergies

Toddler TV-viewing should be curbed by age 5: study
Reuters - 700 children to learn the children’s viewing habits and whether they tended to be anxious, depressed, have sleep problems, have trouble concentrating, exhibit aggressive behavior or lack social skills. Sixteen percent of the children in the study had

A Vaccine as an Option to Keep Shingles at Bay
New York Times - Unable to sleep and in terrible pain, I went to the local emergency room. The doctor there gave me an intravenous painkiller The shingles vaccine, Zostavax by Merck, was licensed in May 2006 after a study of more than 38,500 men and women 60 and

Professors talk students to sleep
Appalachian Online - According to the Unofficial Student Manual, an online student blog site, sleep is one of the most important and highly neglected study tools. Since most students are not capable of getting this rest at night due to things like parties, friends

Education suffers for children in shelters, says report
CBC News - Treating sleep apnea reduces heart attack, stroke risk: study Treating people who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea by administering continuous positive airway pressure can lower a person’s risk of heart attack and stroke, a small study has found.