28 August 2015

Sleep News This Week, Aug 21 - 27


 SPECIAL  || BACK TO SCHOOL LINKS
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 ALERTS  || Medical recalls, device alerts, clinical trial opportunities, FDA announcements, drug warnings, special features 

RESEARCHERS LOOKING FOR SUBJECTS FOR A STUDY ABOUT TREATING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF SHIFT WORK:
 Subjects should be ages 18 to 35, willing to participate in 3 to 5 short medical screening visits, and can spend 2 weeks in an in-laboratory stay at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. No study medication involved. Payment up to $4000Email for more info

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 TOP TEN  || Sleep news picks this week -- newest to oldest

1. AUG 27 || CBS NEWS
2. AUG 27 || SLEEP REVIEW
3. AUG 26 || FOX 6 NOW
4.  AUG 26 || SLEEP JUNKIE
Revealing the Science Behind Sleeping and Waking
The Science of Sleep

5. AUG 25 || THE DAILY MAIL 
Tired all the time: Restless Legs Syndrome could be the REAL reason why


The Science of Sleep

6. AUG 25 || MEDICAL XPRESS
Researchers track racers fighting sleep deprivation
Sports



7. AUG 25 || TELEGRAPH HERALD
Understanding sleep apnea and diabetes link
The Science of Sleep

8. AUG 24 || NEUROLOGY ADVISOR
Therapeutics

9. AUG 22 || ABC 30
Sleep Drunkenness Affects 1 in 7 Americans
Video

10.  AUG 22 || THE DAILY MAIL 
Putting clock back 'bad for your ticker': Stress and sleep deprivation caused by British Summer Time raises the risk of having a heart attack by eight per cent
Lifestyle & Hygiene

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 WORLD  || International sleep news

AUG 22 || SOUTH LONDON PRESS [UK]
If only I could get more sleep...

AUG 23 || GIZMODO [AUSTRALIA]
How Travelling To Deep Space In Cryogenic Sleep Could Actually Work

AUG 24 || THE INDEPENDENT [FRANCE]
Spencer Stone: Heroic airman on France train was napping when gunman attacked

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 NATIONAL  || Sleep news across the U.S.

AUG 24 || BUSINESS WIRE [NJ]

 PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY  || Community health: epidemiology, transportation, industry, education



AUG 22 || WEEKLY OBSERVER


 BUSINESS & WORKPLACE  || Workplace safety, corporate news, the business of sleep

AUG 21 || BUSTLE


AUG 21 || CRAIN'S
Why napping at work can be ... exhausting

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 THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP  || Scientific research and basic sleep health resources

AUG 21 || 3 NEWS
Shift work winds forward the biological clock - study

AUG 21 || BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Impact of sleep disturbance on recovery in veterans with PTSD and TBI

AUG 21 || INTERCOOLER
The Scientific Link between Better Sleep and Better Focus

AUG 21 || MEDICAL DAILY
The Sleep-Memory Connection And All The Ways We Can Learn In Our Sleep
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 TECHNOLOGY  || Devices and tools for diagnosing and treating sleep health issues
 DRUGS & THERAPIES  || Pharmacology, therapeutics, alternative medicine

AUG 21 || SLEEP REVIEW
Drugs

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 CULTURE & MEDIA  || Cultural and social expressions and discussions about sleep

AUG 23 || BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ben Affleck 'struggling with sleep since split'
Celebrities

 LIFESTYLE & HYGIENE  || Helps for patients and clues for sleep self-improvement

AUG 24 || THE BOSTON GLOBE
Many jet lag ‘cures,’ but none work for all--Melatonin? Light exposure? Teetotalism? Research goes on

AUG 24 || CLINICAL ADVISOR
More sleep can help your waistline
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 FAMILY  || Sleep health through the lifespan: pediatrics, womens health, family health, eldercare

AUG 21 || THE GLOBE AND MAIL

AUG 21 || SLEEP REVIEW
Are Changes in the Placenta Linked to Sleep Abnormalities?
Pregnancy

 MULTIMEDIA || Sleep health education and issues captured in graphics, photos, audio, film

AUG 22 || WBAL-TV
Woman's Doctor: Sleep Apnea and Pregnancy
Video

AUG 27 || CPAP DIRECT
Sleep Apnea is Dangerous
Video

AUG 27 || FOX NEWS
Why you're talking in your sleep
The Science of Sleep

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 FIRST PERSON  || Individual accounts of living with sleep disorders

AUG 25 || LOWELL SUN
Thanking Sen. Eldridge for his support of sleep-deprivation bill
Public Health & Safety



AUG 26 || CHICAGO NOW
How I learned to reduce my night terrors
Lifestyle & Hygiene



AUG 26 || CHICAGO NOW
Ten reasons I nap and you should too
Lifestyle & Hygiene

AUG 26 || CHICAGO NOW
You're getting sleepy -- I wish
Lifestyle & Hygiene


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 DREAM LIFE  || The art and science of dreaming

AUG 21 || MEDICAL DAILY
The Sleep-Memory Connection And All The Ways We Can Learn In Our Sleep

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