REM Sleep Labs Blog
Date posted: may 17, 2012 09:02pmPeople who maintain different weekend and weekday sleep schedules may suffer from ‘social jet lag’ which can lead to increased health risks, according to a recent study. Social jet lag is very similar to, and derives its name from, the jet lag that is onset by travelling between different time zones. Rese...
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Date posted: may 11, 2012 04:16pmNew medical research suggests that obstructive sleep apnea can cause brain artery damage in patients after just one month. A single month of moderate sleep apnea can increase the likelihood of stroke, cell dysfunction, and cardiovascular problems in the brain. Due to the quick onset of these potentially severe medical risk...
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Date posted: may 04, 2012 05:15pmIt’s become a far too common diagnosis for children, that exhibit inattentiveness and a difficulty in focusing on work, that they have ADHD. While ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder, is certainly a very real diagnosis for many children, oftentimes doctors don’t consider what could be an underlying cause of a child’s perceiv...
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Date posted: april 26, 2012 08:15pmGenerally, when one goes to the doctor to be vaccinated, the hope is to be guarded against that illness, not exposed to an entirely new one. Unfortunately, that seems to be exactly what is happening with recipients of the swine flu vaccine. Swine flu, as the name suggests, is often found in pigs, but has been known to pass to humans on occasion....
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Date posted: april 19, 2012 07:17pmCan Being Too Sleepy Really Make Me Diabetic?
According to Angela Haupt of U.S. News and World Report, poor sleep may be at the root of the diabetes and obesity epidemics in America. Haupt cited a study published April 11 in a well-regarded medical journal called Science Translation Medicine.
In the study, a group of 21 male and ...
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Date posted: april 13, 2012 06:17pmA new sleep apnea treatment device called ApneaRx, available on the market now, was just approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the U.S. Representatives Apnea Science, the creators of the sleep apnea device, including Chief Operating Officer Patrick Maley and his colleagues, said that they hope the product will help patients in ...
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Date posted: april 04, 2012 07:10pmMichael Breus, M.D. wrote on a Huffington Post blog last week that researchers found increased occurrences of strokes among patients who suffered from the common sleep disorder, sleep apnea. Dr. Breus is a board-certified sleep specialist and a clinical psychologist. The study Breus cites was published in CHEST, the main publication of the Ameri...
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Date posted: march 30, 2012 03:21pmScientists in Australia said after conducting recent studies that patients are twice as likely to develop memory loss or Parkinson’s disease if they are diagnosed with a sleep disorder called rapid eye movement behavior disorder (RBD).
During cycles of rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep, your body is supposed to go into tempora...
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Date posted: march 22, 2012 06:00pmWith most of us still struggling to adjust to “spring forward” daylight savings time, it’s hard to believe that some people may be blessed with the ability to thrive on only 4 hours of sleep. According to CNN, studies show that “short sleepers” with a mutated hDEC2 gene have an irregular sleep-wake cycle that allows...
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Date posted: march 12, 2012 03:18pmResults of a telephone survey made public last Thursday concluded that, regardless of popular belief, older people suffer from fewer sleep disorders than their younger counterparts. In fact, researchers said that getting better quality sleep may be easier as you age.
The survey took data from more than 150,000 people in the United States...
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