Sleep Info

A new study is pointing to serious issues that could be caused by sleep apnea in children.  The research, conducted at Hopkin’s Children’s Centre in Baltimore, looked at 31 children between the ages of 6 and 16 (19 of whom had severe sleep apnea) using a special form or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).  It was…
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Scientist looking at data about delinquency and sleep say that the severity of delinquency seems to be directly linked to the severity of the delinquent’s sleep deficit. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska, and is published in the October 10 issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.  It looked…
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We can learn a lot from a zebrafish.  A new study released this week from the Stanford School of Medicine got a little help from the small fish, to show how sleep and the body’s circadian clock affect the number of neuron-to-neuron connections in a particular region of the brain.  Pretty serious stuff for a…
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2 Guys 600 Pillows, the YouTube music video produced for SleepBetter.org and Carpenter Co. that’s become an Internet sensation, generates a lot of laughs about two guys and their beloved bed pillows, but behind the humor, there’s a serious message about the need to replace pillows every year or two, says the founder of Sleepbetter.org….
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A new study out this week is providing more support to the idea that good sleep can mean a slimmer you. The research, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, said cutting your sleep time from 8.5 hours to 5.5 hours causes you to lose proportionally less fat.   The small study looked at 10 overweight…
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The FDA and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in the U.S. is issuing a warning about a device that was originally designed to help eliminate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.  The government says infant sleep positioners that have barriers on either side of the baby can actually cause suffocation and death. The advisory was…
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Are work worries keeping you up at night?  If so, you have plenty of company.  A new survey in the U.K. indicates that nearly 70% of the respondents are having trouble sleeping due to concerns about work. The online survey questioned 3,000 people.  The main reason indicated for the sleeplessness was high workload.  Half of…
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The sleep schedule of first year medical residents has historically been nearly nonexistent, as they work long and odd hours.  That’s all about to change, however, as the Council for Graduate Medical Education announced new rules for shift length. Maximum work shifts for first-year residents only are being cut from 24 hours to 16 hours….
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When Rhett & Link unleashed their YouTube music video, 2 Guys 600 Pillows, on the world, we knew it would be popular.  What’s happened is the true definition of a viral hit. In the first week after the video (created for SleepBetter.org and its owner, Carpenter Co.) was released, it was viewed more than two…
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A new study from a research team in Italy finds that those with Celiac disease suffer from more sleep disorders than the general public.  Celiac disease is an inherited, autoimmune disease in which the lining of the small intestine is damaged from eating gluten and other proteins found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats….
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