Patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) often become confused or delirious soon after, or within a few days of admittance to the ICU. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Critical Care, shows that use of earplugs can result i…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 30% of the nation’s workers are sleeping under 6 hours a day, which is less than the 7 to 9 hours that the National Sleep Foundation recommends for healthy adults. To assess the prev…
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disorder in which there are recurring episodes of upper airway collapse during sleep with ongoing effort to breathe. OSA is estimated to affect 1 in 5 adults in America. The serious nature of the problem was captured …
People who have irregular sleep patterns and/or do not sleep enough have a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome and diabetes, researchers from Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, reported in the journal Science T…
A study published Online First in one of the JAMA journals, Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, reveals that even though patients who undergo surgery for obstructive sleep apnea (a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing) may …
People who experience sleep apnea may have more at stake than getting a good night’s sleep. According to an article published in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association, when sleep apnea becomes more severe it may cause …
A nightly breathing treatment may do more than help people with obstructive sleep apnea get a good night’s rest – it may also help prevent heart failure. In a study published in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association, r…
With Daylight Savings approaching, some are excited for the start of longer and warmer days, while others are only thinking of the fact that this Sunday, Daylight Savings, they will lose an hour of sleep. On Sunday, March 11th, the clocks will be push…
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University studied more than 11,000 children and published their findings in today’s (5th March 2012) Pediatrics. They have shown that younger children that have sleep disordered breathing h…
Aging does not appear to be a factor in poor sleep, a new survey of more than 150,000 Americans shows. In fact, subjective sleep quality seems to improve over a lifetime, with the fewest complaints coming from people in their 80s. “This flies in the fa…
