AAA Travel is projecting that 40.8 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Independence Day holiday, with 84 percent of travelers planning to travel by automobile. According to a recent study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, an [...]
A new study suggests that your level of sleepiness or alertness during the day may be related to the type of food that you eat. “Increased fat consumption has an acute adverse effect on alertness of otherwise healthy, non-obese adults,” said principal investigator Alexandros [...]
The individuals who were affected by the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy on April 15 are facing what could be a long, hard road to recovery. This process can involve a struggle to sleep well. Many people develop what doctors call “acute stress disorder” after [...]
Getting a good night's sleep isn't always easy for women at menopause. Exercise may help, but women can have a tough time carving out leisure time for it. The good news from a study published online today in Menopause, the journal of the North [...]
A new survey has found that more than half of gynecologic cancer survivors may have trouble sleeping. "Physicians need to address the presence of sleep disturbance among their survivors, and modifiable risk factors, e.g., hot flashes, urinary urgency, and bowel complaints, should be addressed," [...]
A new study found that telephone-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of chronic insomnia (CBTI) helped improve sleep quality. "These results are important, because they provide preliminary support for the efficacy and sustainability of telephone-delivered CBTI," said Dr. J. Todd Arnedt, associate professor [...]
A new study found that people who suffer from insomnia appear to have an increased risk of developing heart failure. "We related heart failure risk to three major insomnia symptoms including trouble falling asleep, problems staying asleep, and not waking up feeling refreshed in [...]
A new study found that as little as one week of sleep deprivation is enough to alter the activity of hundreds of human genes. The study, appearing in the journal PNAS, involved a small group of 26 participants who were exposed to one week [...]
A new study found that adult sleepwalking is a potentially serious condition that may induce violent behaviors and affect health-related quality of life. "We found a higher frequency of daytime sleepiness, fatigue, insomnia, depressive and anxiety symptoms and altered quality of life in patients [...]
A new study suggests that insomnia and poor sleep are common in patients with epilepsy and may adversely impact their quality of life. Interventions to improve sleep hygiene can be suggested to patients as part of more comprehensive epilepsy education programs. The study involved [...]
