54% of Americans Want Daylight Saving Time Ended
As the annual "spring forward" to observe daylight saving time approaches on March 9, new Gallup polling data reveals a majority of Americans want to eliminate the practice.
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54% of Americans Want Daylight Saving Time Ended
As the annual “spring forward” to observe daylight saving time approaches on March 9, new Gallup polling data reveals a majority of Americans want to eliminate the practice.
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Global Sleep Study Reveals the Impact of Poor Sleep
Results from ResMed’s fifth annual Global Sleep Study reveal the toll that poor sleep takes on health, work, and relationships.
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FDA-Cleared Head-Worn Device for Chronic Insomnia Launches
In a clinical trial, 95% of participants reported better sleep in four weeks.
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FDA Clears Digital Insomnia Treatment SleepioRx
The digital therapeutic uses cognitive behavioral therapy to treat chronic insomnia in adults, with clinical trials showing up to 76% efficacy.
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EMA Backs New Use of Melatonin Drug for Children with Insomnia and Neurogenetic Disorders
The European Medicines Agency’s CHMP recommended expanding the use of a melatonin-based treatment to help children with neurogenetic disorders manage insomnia.
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Cosette Pharma Acquires Ambien from Sanofi
New Jersey-based Cosette Pharmaceuticals has acquired the insomnia medications Ambien and Ambien CR from Sanofi US.
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Sleep and Mood Disorders May Worsen Asthma Control
Asthmatics with insomnia experienced more asthma exacerbations than those without insomnia and were more likely to have concurrent sleep apnea, along with anxiety or depression.
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Mild COVID-19 Associated with High Insomnia Rates
A survey of people who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 but never hospitalized found that 76% developed insomnia—and anxious or depressed people were more vulnerable.
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FDA OKs Noninvasive Neurostimulator for Insomnia
The device is designed to improve insomnia by delivering a small electrical pulse to the head for 30 minutes before bed.
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HCO Acquires Virtual Care Platform to Expand Respiratory Therapy Services
Health Care Originals, a maker of cardiopulmonary wearable systems, acquired Dawn Health’s virtual sleep care platform to accelerate the deployment of its Nightingale virtual care to benefit Americans with asthma or COPD.
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Insomnia Spikes Risk of Respiratory Infections
A study involving over 600,000 participants revealed a significantly elevated risk of respiratory infection among individuals diagnosed with insomnia.
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Insomnia Drug Class May Not Influence Exacerbation Risks in COPD Patients
New research examines the mortality and exacerbation risks associated with non-benzodiazepine benzodiazepine receptor agonists versus other hypnotics to treat insomnia in COPD patients.
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Sleep Deprivation May Inhibit Vaccine Effectiveness
How strongly a vaccine protects you may depend on getting enough sleep in the days before and after inoculation, according to a new meta-analysis examining the relationship between sleep duration and the body’s response to vaccination.
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Exercise May Reduce Negative Effects of Unhealthy Sleep on Lifespan
Sleeping too little or too long is linked with a shorter lifespan, but scientists have found that exercise counteracts some of these negative effects, according to a study of more than 90,000 adults.
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Short Sleep Tied to Increased Risk of Peripheral Artery Disease
Sleeping less than five hours a night is associated with a 74% raised likelihood of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared with seven to eight hours of sleep.
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NIH $7M Grant to Fund Research into Sleep and Memory
Sleep plays an important role in how the brain consolidates short-term memories from the previous day into enduring ones. But exactly how that process occurs remains a mystery.
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Good Sleep, Good Immunity
Getting a consistent good night’s sleep supports normal production and programming of hematopoietic stem cells, a building block of the body’s innate immune system.
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REM Sleep Amount Tied to Body Temperature
New sleep research suggests a previously unobserved relationship between body temperature and REM sleep.
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Sleep-deprived Teens More Likely to be Overweight, Obese
Sleep-deprived teens who sleep less than 8 hours a night are more likely to be overweight or obese compared to peers with sufficient sleep.
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Poor Sleep Tied to Greater Risk of COPD Exacerbations
Poor sleep is associated with a significantly increased risk of COPD exacerbations, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Read MoreInsomnia and Heart Disease
Insomnia is present in nearly half of heart disease patients, according to research presented at ESC 2022 and published in SLEEP Advances.
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Healthcare Workers’ Poor Sleep Tied to Psychological Distress
Columbia University researchers report that healthcare workers with poor sleep were significantly more likely to report depression, psychological distress, and anxiety than HCWs with better sleep.
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Sleep Quality Tied to Psychiatric Disease
Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new study that used wrist accelerometer data to track sleep.
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Exercise Too Close to Bedtime Negatively Affects Sleep
Exercise that ended less than two hours before bedtime negatively impacted sleep, increasing time to fall asleep and reducing sleep duration, according to a meta-analysis published in the journal Sleep Medicine Reviews.
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