SLEEP NEWS THIS WEEK, Nov 13 - 20

 SPECIAL  || Recalls, special announcements, breaking news, events

• Disclosure: The curator of SHC is now a regular contributor to the blog for the Somnosure Education Center blog. 

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


1.  NOV 17 || ABC ACTION NEWS
Trucking company suspends driver who bragged on FB that he drove 20+ hours with no sleep
Curator's comments: OUTRAGEOUS. SHC hopes he never gets behind the wheel of a truck again.
Public Health & Safety

2. NOV 17 || ABC NEWS LIVE BLOG
Good Morning America: Watch Dan Childs Stay Awake for 40 Hours Straight
Media

3. NOV 17 || LIFEHACKER
Use the Rule of Threes to Find Out If You Have a Sleep Problem
Lifestyle & Hygiene

4. NOV 17 || SLEEP REVIEW
Sleep May Counter Impulse Buys
Culture

5. NOV 16 || ENGADGET
Experts say phones need a 'bedtime mode' to fix our sleep
Technology

6. NOV 15 || THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVORMcCrory donor sparked Highway Patrol campaign against napping truckers
Public Health & Safety

7. NOV 15 || THE NATIONAL
Dying for a place to sleep

Public Health & Safety

8.  NOV 14 || METRO
What would happen if you didn’t sleep?
Science of Sleep

9. NOV 13 || AMERICAN SLEEP ASSOCIATION
Sleep apnea remedy may be life altering – Houston Chronicle
Therapies

10. NOV 13 || FOX SAN ANTONIO
Linx treatment for GERD, heartburn
Therapies

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 WORLD  || International sleep news

NOV 13 || CHRONICLE HERALD [CANADA]
New effort aims to help sleep apnea sufferers without health plan

NOV 13 || TIMES OF INDIA [INDIA]
Six injured, two critically, after bus hits divider on Yamuna Expressway

NOV 14 || THE JAPAN TIMES [JAPAN]
Zzzz — a novel way to manipulate sleep

NOV 17 || ISRAEL [ISRAEL]

Israeli tech cracks ‘sleep DNA’ to beat insomnia

Curator's comments: Great progress made here!

NOV 18 || ASHBOURNE NEWS TELEGRAPH [UK]

Fatal A50 lorry crash: Driver was not wearing seatbelt and might have fallen asleep

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 NATIONAL  || Sleep news across the U.S.

NOV 13 || KFVS 12 [IL]
ISP: Semi crashed on IL Rte. 13 after driver fell asleep at wheel

NOV 13 || NORTHWEST GEORGIA NEWS [GA]
Community rallies around Gordon family; Model grad Matt Gordon at Erlanger after wreck

NOV 13 || OWATONNA PEOPLE'S PRESS [MN]
The hidden link between sleep and pain

NOV 13 || VAN WINKLE'S [VA]
Homeless Veterans Can Now Sleep Soundly in Virginia

Curator's comments: It's a start but let's get all fifty states in on this effort.

NOV 14 || FOX 29 SAN ANTONIO [TX]
Tired driver crashes car into retaining wall

NOV 14 || SFBAY.ca [CA]
Drowsy duo appear to drive car off cliff: Drowsy driving may be behind a plunge two people took late Friday night in their vehicle off a cliff near Stinson Beach in unincorporated Marin County, California Highway Patrol officials said

NOV 16 || BUFFALO NEWS [NY]
Grand Island man fell asleep at wheel, crashed into trees

NOV 16 || THE COURIER [OH]
Findlay councilman’s car crashes, wife hurt

NOV 16 || IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY [IA]
Change Agent: Zlatan Križan

NOV 16 || KMA LAND [NE]
Nebraska man hurt in northwest Missouri crash

NOV 16 || WIBW [KS]
7-year-old pushes to put the brakes on fatalities

NOV 17 || 12 NEWS [AZ]
Casa Grande baby's sleep pattern worries parents, doctors

NOV 17 || BLUE RIDGE NOW [NC]
Car nearly hits house after driver falls asleep

NOV 17 || KPTV [OR]
Car smashes into building after driver falls asleep at the wheel

NOV 18 || WEST VIRGINIA METRO NEWS [WV]
3 injured in Kanawha school bus crash

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

NOV 13 || THE EXAMINER
Dangers of sleep deprivation

NOV 13 || PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL
Concerns about widely available sleeping pill

NOV 16 || WBIR
Staying safe behind the wheel of a big rig

NOV 17 || AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
New drowsy driving position statement calls for greater public awareness, education: American Academy of Sleep Medicine reports that drowsy driving prevention efforts can save lives
Curator's comments: Look at the Public Health & Safety and National departments in this weekly curation: these news stories alone should be enough to convince us all to forego getting behind the wheel when we are drowsy. DRIVE ALERT; ARRIVE ALIVE.

NOV 18 || CROZER-KEYSTONE HEALTH SYSTEM

Losing sleep? You may be more likely to catch a cold

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

NOV 17 || TRIB LIVE [PA]

Pitt study to explore shift work's effects on sleep

NOV 18 || FORTUNE

Do Successful CEOs Sleep Less Than Everyone Else?

NOV 18 || HOSPITALITY.net
Creating A Quiet And A Peaceful Urban Oasis: Why A Quality Night’s Sleep Is So Important

NOV 18 || SAN JOSE INSIDE

Breakneck Work Culture Leads to Shift in How We Treat Sleep
Curator's comments: Something's gotta give, people. Heroics at work using sleep deprivation as a badge of honor isn't the way.

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

NOV 15 || THE NEWS INDEPENDENT
What Sleeplessness Says about your Sugar Level

NOV 16 || CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION

Effects of rotigotine on daytime symptoms in patients with primary restless legs syndrome: a randomized, placebo-controlled study

NOV 17 || RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL

Snoring, drowsiness could mean sleep apnea

NOV 17 || SLEEP REVIEW

Circadian Clock Controls Insulin, Blood Sugar In Pancreas

NOV 17 || SLEEP REVIEW

Update on REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Its Management, and Its Strong Link With Parkinsonism

NOV 18 || CELL

The Yin and Yang of Sleep and Attention (abstract)

NOV 18 || NEWS-MEDICAL.net

Scientists develop potent compound that promotes wakefulness, remedies sleep disorder narcolepsy

NOV 18 || SLEEP REVIEW

Study Identifies Links Between Genetics, Sleep Behavior

NOV 18 || SOMNOSURE

The Relationship Between Sleep Apnea and Diabetes

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 TECHNOLOGY  || Devices and tools for diagnosing and treating sleep health issues

NOV 13 || FORBES
The App That 'Hears' You Sleep

NOV 17 || GOOD
Can Technology Solve Our National Sleep Crisis?

Curator's comments: Maybe. If it works. Some of it works, some of it doesn't. But let's not pan all tech because some of it doesn't work. It makes sense to keep on trying. 

NOV 17 || TECH TIMES
The Juvo Sleep Monitor Helps Turn Your Room Into A Sleep Haven

NOV 17 || SLEEP REVIEW

SleepCogni Seeks Funding Via Kickstarter

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 DRUGS & THERAPIES  || Pharmacology, therapeutics, alternative medicine

NOV 13 || MY FOX 8 
Sleep Concerns: Sleep aids
Drugs

NOV 13 || REUTERS
Jaw support good alternative to breathing mask for sleep apnea
Therapies

NOV 18 || PLOS ONE
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (ICBT-i) Improves Comorbid Anxiety and Depression—A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Therapies

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

NOV 13 || THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Couples find rest in slumbering separately

NOV 13 || THE CONVERSATION
Can listening to music help you sleep?

NOV 13 || WIAT
Sleep experts recommend ideal times for napping

NOV 15 || DETAILS
Pulling an All-Nighter Is Worse Than Six Months of Unhealthy Eating: Diet and exercise mean nothing if you're not getting enough sleep.

NOV 15 || VAN WINKLE'S 
Whatever Happened to the Waterbed?

NOV 18 || DENVER CHANNEL
Sleep experts: TV, video game screen time making night terrors worse in children

Curator's comments: Something that just seems obvious anecdotally now has some evidence to back it up. 

NOV 18 || HUFFINGTON POST SLEEP + WELLNESS

Good Sleep Is No Accident

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 FAMILY  || Sleep health through the lifespan: pediatrics, women's health, family health, eldercare

NOV 13 || SLEEP REVIEW
Common Causes, Effects, and Solutions to Sleep Deprivation in Children
Kids

NOV 13 || TODAY.com
Sneaky problem: Sleep apnea may be worse for women than men
Women's Health

NOV 15 || JUNEAU EMPIRE
Baby Box program to be launched in Juneau
Babies

NOV 16 || HUFFINGTON POST
Sleep-Deprived Dad's 'Shut Up And Dance' Parody Is The Ultimate Bedtime Anthem
Families

NOV 16 || SLEEP APNEA BLOG
Can sleep apnea affect children?
Curator's comments: Sleep apnea is a mechanical breathing problem, not a disease of aging.
Kids

NOV 17 || PLOS ONE

Modified STOP-Bang Tool for Stratifying Obstructive Sleep Apnea Risk in Adolescent Children
Diagnostics


NOV 17 || VERDE NEWS
'Unsafe sleep conditions' cause of spike in deaths of children in Arizona
Kids

NOV 19 || NEWS.com.au

Why toddler sleep issues are different to those in babies

Kids

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

NOV 13 || BUSTLE
What Are The Best Sleep Positions? Probably Not What You're Using
Infographic

NOV 13 || WBIR 
Experts: Stress is proven to interfere with sleep
Video

NOV 13 || WSU HEALTH SCIENCES SPOKANE 
Sleep researcher presents on drowsy driving
Video

NOV 16 || CARTOON MOVEMENT
Insomnia and the error in counting sheep
Cartoon

NOV 16 || MOTHERBOARD
Sleep Deprivation Slowly Kills Your Brain
Video

NOV 17 || GQ
Incredible Video Shows What Happens When You Don't Get Enough Sleep
Video

NOV 17 || HEALTHiNATION
Sleep Well to Improve Heart Health (from the National Sleep Foundation)
Video


NOV 18 || CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Los Angeles' homeless can now sleep in cars, but will that help?
Curator's comments: It's a start.
Video

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 FIRST PERSON  || Individual accounts of living with sleep disorders

NOV 15 || DAILY HERALD
REM: the non-musical dream
Column

NOV 15 || THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Airway to Heaven: How I Finally Hit Snooze on my Snoring
Personal Narrative

NOV 18 || THE NOTRE DAME OBSERVER

Suffering from Insomnia

Editorial

NOV 18 || THE REGISTER-GUARD

Sleep is essential for survival

Letter to the Editor

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 DREAM LIFE  || The art and science of dreaming

NOV 17 || BUSTLE
Sleep? Everything You Need To Know About Your Midnight Musings

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THIS WEEK'S SLEEP NEWS, Aug 7 - 13

 SPECIAL  || BACK TO SCHOOL LINKS
SleepyHeadCENTRAL proudly supports the Start School Later movement, which has shown strong evidence that later school start times for our kids results in smarter, healthier, more well-adjusted kids. 

• ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION || Why do middle and high schools resist starting later so teens aren’t exhausted?
• BALTIMORE SUN || Balto. Co. going the wrong direction on school start times: By starting school earlier, Baltimore County is putting efficiency ahead of student health and achievement
• FOX 6 NEWS || Attention parents: 10 tips for child wellness as the new school year starts
• HARKER HEIGHTS HERALD || Tips for child wellness as the new school year starts
• INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH || Sleep Schedules and Going Back to School
• KELOLAND TV || The Importance Of Sleep For Students
• KTAR NEWS || Teens not sleeping enough — some blame school start time, others say tech
• NEUROLOGY ADVISOR || Call for Later School Start Times to Improve Adolescent Sleep Habits
• NORTHJERSEY.com || New law directs New Jersey to study later school start times as benefit to students
• SLEEP BETTER, LIVE BETTER BLOG || Sleepy Students Perform Worse in School
• STATESBORO HERALD ||  6 ways to set healthy sleep habits in kids
• WASHINGTON POST || No more sleeping in: How to prepare kids for the cruel reality of school schedules

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

1. AUG 13 || GAWKER
Justice Dept.: Human Beings Need Sleep, So Stop Fining Them for Sleeping Outside
Culture

2. AUG 13 || PSYCH CENTRAL
Exercise Reduces Depression-Related Sleep Problems
Lifestyle & Hygiene

3. AUG 12 || MD MAGAZINE
Q&A With Paul Doghramji: Shift Work Disorder and the Future of Sleep Medicine
Public Health & Safety

4. AUG 11 || NATIONAL TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD
Fatigue and Excessive Speed Caused Multi-Vehicle Accident in New Jersey (referring to injured comedian Tracy Morgan and comedian Jimmy Mack, who perished in the accident)
Celebrities

5. AUG 11 || NEW SCIENTIST
Darting eyes in REM sleep are seeing objects in your dreams
The Science of Sleep

6. AUG 11 || WCTV-TV [FL]
Grieving Mom Celebrates Daughter's Birthday by Launching SIDS Campaign 

Pediatrics

7. AUG 10 || NEWSER
Air Traffic Controllers Suffer Scary Sleep Deprivation: The AP has results of a study faulting grueling schedules 
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AUG 11 || SLEEP REVIEW
FAA Responds to NASA Controller Fatigue Study Findings 
Public Health & Safety

8. AUG 10 || OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
Worn-out warriors? ONR looks at importance of sleep to warfighters
Military

9. AUG 7 || FORBES
Are Line Haul Drivers Getting Enough Sleep?
Public Health & Safety

10. AUG 7 || SLEEP REVIEW
Don’t Miss Out on Shut-eye, Warns Man Who Was Most Sleep-deprived in UK
Video

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 WORLD  || International sleep news

AUG 8 || IRISH EXAMINER [IRELAND]
Hold back the years by sinking into sleep

AUG 9 || DAILY MAIL [UK]
Get more sleep, the middle-aged are told: New government campaign will target over-40s who are risking early death by getting less than six hours a night

AUG 9 || IRISH EXAMINER [IRELAND]
This woman has banned herself from laughing because it leaves her temporarily paralysed

AUG 9 || THE STAR ONLINE [MALAYSIA]
Teens trade sleep for success

AUG 10 || BURTON MAIL [UK]
A good night's sleep not a desirable – an essential

AUG 10 || HERALD SCOTLAND [SCOTLAND]
Colette Douglas Home: To sleep, perchance to become healthier of mind and body. [Editorial]

AUG 12 || CAYMAN REPORTER [CAYMAN ISLANDS]
Health City opens Cayman’s first sleep lab

AUG 12 || ZEE NEWS [INDIA]
Parliament deadlock: Rahul Gandhi caught napping during LS debate?

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 NATIONAL  || Sleep news across the U.S.

AUG 10 || WAKE UP NARCOLEPSY [MA]
Announcing ticket sales for the Third Annual Boston Comedy Night! All proceeds from this event will benefit Wake Up Narcolepsy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to raise narcolepsy awareness and fund medical research to speed diagnosis, improve treatment, and develop a cure for this debilitating sleep disorder

AUG 11 || WRCB-TV [TN]
Video captures man stealing weighted therapy blanket 

AUG 12 || KENTUCKY.com [KY]
Sleep deprived truckers, exit now 

AUG 12 || WTOP [DC]
Specialist sheds light on struggle of insomnia 

AUG 13 || CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS [OH]

Bedwetting something to lose sleep over 

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

AUG 7 || DAILY BREW
 Death by sleepwalking a rare but real possibility, says expert

AUG 10 || THE ROTHENBERG LAW FIRM
 Liability for Highway Trucking Accidents- Who Is To Blame?

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

AUG 10 || CHEAT SHEET
Why People Who Sleep Better Earn More Money

AUG 12 || WICHITA EAGLE
Small Business Spotlight: Sleeptopia filling a niche in sleep apnea testing

AUG 13 || PAYSCALE
11 Ways Sleep Deprivation Is Ruining Your Career (and What to Do About It)

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

AUG 8 || KMA LAND 
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Summertime Blues

AUG 10 || HEALIO PULMONARY
Respiratory resistance increases in patients with obesity, OSA

AUG 10 || HEALIO RHEUMATOLOGY
Anxiety, depression, sleep disorders common in patients with rheumatic diseases

AUG 11 || THE INSOMNIA BLOG
Digging into memory—and its relationship to sleep

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 TECHNOLOGY  || Devices and tools for diagnosing and treating sleep health issues

AUG 10 || MD
Sleep Apnea Device Could Slow Diabetes Progression

AUG 10 || METRO
Say goodbye to jet lag with a new mask that rearranges your body clock

AUG 13 || GLOBE & MAIL
High-tech solutions to combat growing problem of drowsy driving

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 DRUGS & THERAPIES  || Pharmacology, therapeutics, alternative medicine

AUG 10 || STUFF.co.nz
Six yoga poses to help you sleep better
Alternative Therapies

AUG 10 || VAN WINKLE'S
Insomnia, Suicide and the Redemptive Power of Ketamine
Drugs

AUG 11 || REUTERS
Hetlioz pill may ease sleep disorder for some blind people
Drugs

AUG 13 || XTRI.com
Can the Sleep Cocktail help you unleash a new PR?
Alternative Therapies

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

AUG 7 || DALLAS MORNING NEWS 
Megan Cartwright: Why it’s time to ease up on bed-wetting
Culture

AUG 10 || ENSTARS 
'Dancing With the Stars' 2015 Cast: Witney Carson Reveals Why She Has 'Insomnia' While Competing In Season
Celebrities

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

AUG 9 || MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
Dr Bill Elliott: Put down your iPad and go to sleep — really

AUG 10 || GAZETTE REVIEW
Regular Bedtime Routine is Beneficial for Health

AUG 11 || GAZETTE REVIEW
Studies Show Napping Benefits Mental Health

AUG 12 || MIMI

Catching Up On Sleep Isn't as Easy as You Think: Those recommended seven hours a night are no joke.

AUG 13 || LIVE TRADING NEWS
Nature’s Way To Get A Good Night’s Sleep

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 FAMILY  || Sleep health through the lifespan: pediatrics, womens health, family health, eldercare

AUG 7 || INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL REVIEW 
She Was In So Much Pain From Pregnancy She Couldn’t Sleep. That’s When the Doctor Pulls Out Tape
Women

AUG 10 || GUELPH MERCURY
Adequate sleep crucial for the development of toddlers
Pediatrics

AUG 10 || QUARTZ
Study: Children who watch TV at night are more prone to nightmares and sleep talking
Pediatrics

AUG 11 || SLEEP REVIEW
Before Surgery, Help Identifying Sleep-disordered Breathing in Kids
Pediatrics

AUG 13 || DURHAMREGION.com
How safe are baby's sleep spaces?
Pediatrics

AUG 13 || INDEPENDENT
Why insomnia hits middle-age and what we can do to prevent it
Middle Age

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

AUG 11 || CTV NEWS ATLANTIC
Lack of sleep may exacerbate chronic illnesses
Video

AUG 13 || WJHG
Sleep Medical Center Breaks Down the Science of Sleep
Video

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 FIRST PERSON  || Individual accounts of living with sleep disorders

AUG 13 || WARWICK BEACON
Letters: Productive Insomnia
Lifestyle & Hygiene

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 DREAM LIFE  || The art and science of dreaming

AUG 10 || ABC
Am I myself when I sleep? A philosophical look at dreams

AUG 13 || MEDICAL XPRESS
Forget Freud, research on dream imagery may help us understand consciousness

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