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Topics from 01/11/2010
Sleep In The News
| ED May Be Linked to Restless Legs Syndrome |
| WebMD - 01/04/2010 |
| Men in the study who most often experienced symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) were the most likely to also report problems getting and maintaining ... ... |
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| Vivus drug cuts apnea in small trial; shares jump |
| Reuters - 01/07/2010 |
| O), showed it reduced the incidence of sleep apnea events by 69 percent, the company said on Thursday. Shares of the company jumped 5.6 percent to $9.75 in ... ... |
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| Veteran Cephalon drug chief to retire |
| Reuters - 01/08/2010 |
| Its drugs, which have more than $2 billion in annual global sales, include narcolepsy treatments Nuvigil and Provigil. Its dozens of other products include ... ... |
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| Restless legs syndrome, erectile dysfunction linked? |
| Reuters - 01/04/2010 |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two disorders that seem completely unrelated except that each is the focus of massive drug company ad campaigns may actually ... ... |
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| Cephalon Executive VP of Operations Resigning |
| ABC News - 01/08/2010 |
| Cephalon's key drugs include Nuvigil, which is approved to treat narcolepsy, excessive sleepiness caused by sleep apnea, and changes in work schedule. ... ... |
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| SEEKING ADVICE TO CURE INSOMNIA |
| Huffington Post (blog) - 01/09/2010 |
| I was reading Arianna Huffington's piece on insomnia yesterday, when the thought occurred to me that our ancestors were smart to suggest that we better ... ... |
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| Russ Ortiz signs minor-league contract with Dodgers and I have insomnia, but ... |
| Los Angeles Times (blog) - 01/09/2010 |
| Long-ago toasted Russ Ortiz has signed a minor-league contract with the Dodgers, reports Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. 1) The Shawn Estes scenario - he never ... ... |
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| UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News |
| UPI.com - 01/07/2010 |
| 7 (UPI) -- US drug-development company Vivus Inc. said Thursday a clinical study showed its obesity drug Qnexa helped reduce sleep apnea by increasing ... ... |
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| Once Diagnosed, Narcolepsy Can Often Be Effectively Managed |
| KFSM - 01/08/2010 |
| DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Can you explain narcolepsy to me -- how it develops, the treatment options, and what someone with the condition goes through? ... ... |
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| Since Women Are More Sleep-Deprived, Is Insomnia A Feminist Issue? |
| The Frisky - 01/05/2010 |
| I get about 5.5 hours of sleep a night due to kitty hijinks, sleep apnea, and a BlackBerry addiction. But apparently, the human body needs a minimum of 7.5 ... ... |
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| Health Highlights: Jan. 7, 2010 |
| BusinessWeek - 01/07/2010 |
| Nuvigil, which went on sale in June, already has FDA approval for treatment of excessive sleepiness associated with narcolepsy, sleep apnea and "shift work ... ... |
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| Swedish Scientists say that weight loss is best treatment for sleep apnea |
| Shift Work Disorder News - 01/04/2010 |
| Scientists from the Karolina Institute in Sweden recently confirmed that simple weight loss is an effective treatment for sleep apnea in obese men. ... ... |
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| Study: Married Women Gain More Weight Than Single Women |
| WBAY - 01/07/2010 |
| An experimental drug designed to speed weight loss has now been found to improve the condition called sleep apnea. In sleep apnea, people can stop breathing ... ... |
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| RLS boys, girls beat Mobile Christian |
| Andalusia Star-News - 01/08/2010 |
| Red Level's Tigers bounced back from a five-point halftime deficit to defeat Mobile Christian 57-45 Friday ... ... |
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| Finding help allows man to get sleep apnea under control |
| Leader-Telegram - 01/06/2010 |
| Dan Reiland Dr. Bill Klish of Eau Claire has his sleep apnea under control with the aide of a CPAP which he wears at night. Dr. Bill Klish of Eau Claire has ... ... |
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| Insomnia sufferers using online therapy instead of medication |
| WNDU-TV - 01/05/2010 |
| While insomnia sufferers filled more than 50-million prescriptions for sleep meds last year, some experts say it's not worth the risk. ... ... |
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| Narcolepsy is still a (zzzzzz) mystery |
| Danbury News Times - 01/04/2010 |
| Though the disorder remains a mystery, it is known insomnia or sleep deprivation is almost never the cause, despite sleep apnea and other sleep disorders ... ... |
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| Charles Rogers Just Can't Quit Drinking Himself To Sleep |
| Deadspin (blog) - 01/06/2010 |
| Maybe he has narcolepsy. (Caused by too much alcohol.) This arrest could lead to a violation of his probation from the last time he was arrested for falling ... ... |
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| New Daily Persistent Headache Related to Sleep Apnea? |
| Medscape - 01/05/2010 |
| Sleep disorders, including hypersomnia and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, are associated with primary headache syndromes. There are no studies of NDPH ... ... |
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| BiPAP System from Respironics Tackles Complicated Breathing Cycles |
| Medgadget.com - 01/06/2010 |
| Philips Respironics has released a new positive airway pressure (PAP) device for patients with Complex Sleep Apnea and Cheyne-Stokes respiration, ... ... |
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New Sleep Science Articles from the past week
| Sleep disordered breathing, insomnia, and health related quality of life - A comparison between age and gender matched elderly with heart failure or without cardiovascular disease. |
| Johansson P, Arestedt K, Alehagen U, Svanborg E, Dahlström U, Broström A. |
| European journal of cardiovascular nursing : journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology |
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| The role of environmental light in sleep and health: Effects of ocular aging and cataract surgery. |
| Turner PL, Van Someren EJ, Mainster MA. |
| Sleep medicine reviews |
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| Obstructive sleep apnea in children with syndromic craniosynostosis: long-term respiratory outcome of midface advancement. |
| Bannink N, Nout E, Wolvius EB, Hoeve HL, Joosten KF, Mathijssen IM. |
| International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery |
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| Effectiveness of acupressure for residents of long-term care facilities with insomnia: A randomized controlled trial. |
| Sun JL, Sung MS, Huang MY, Cheng GC, Lin CC. |
| International journal of nursing studies |
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| Acute and subchronic administration of anandamide or oleamide increases REM sleep in rats Anandamide and oleamide increase REM sleep. |
| Herrera-Solís A, Vásquez KG, Prospéro-García O. |
| Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior |
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| Oximetry Alone Versus Portable Polygraphy for Sleep Apnea Screening Before Bariatric Surgery. |
| Malbois M, Giusti V, Suter M, Pellaton C, Vodoz JF, Heinzer R. |
| Obesity surgery |
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| Multinomial logistic estimation of Markov-chain models for modeling sleep architecture in primary insomnia patients. |
| Bizzotto R, Zamuner S, De Nicolao G, Karlsson MO, Gomeni R. |
| Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics |
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| GAD67-GFP knock-in mice have normal sleep-wake patterns and sleep homeostasis. |
| Chen L, McKenna JT, Leonard MZ, Yanagawa Y, McCarley RW, Brown RE. |
| Neuroreport |
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| OREXIN ACTIVATION PRECEDES INCREASED NPY EXPRESSION, HYPERPHAGIA AND METABOLIC CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO SLEEP DEPRIVATION. |
| Martins PJ, Marques MS, Tufik S, D'Almeida V. |
| American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism |
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| Towards Using Photo-Plethysmogram Amplitude to Measure Blood Pressure During Sleep. |
| Chua EC, Redmond SJ, McDarby G, Heneghan C. |
| Annals of biomedical engineering |
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| Bilateral central serous chorioretinopathy resolving rapidly with treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. |
| Jain AK, Kaines A, Schwartz S. |
| Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie |
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| The memory function of sleep. |
| Diekelmann S, Born J. |
| Nature reviews. Neuroscience |
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| Sleep-specific atrioventricular block. |
| Ellenbogen JM. |
| Neurology |
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| Discordant clinicopathologic phenotypes in a Japanese kindred of fatal familial insomnia. |
| Saitoh Y, Ogawa M, Naito Y, Komatsuzaki Y, Tagaya H, Arima K, Tamaoka A, Kitamoto T, Murata M. |
| Neurology |
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| Eye movements during REM sleep and imagination of visual scenes. |
| Sprenger A, Lappe-Osthege M, Talamo S, Gais S, Kimmig H, Helmchen C. |
| Neuroreport |
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| Prevalence, demographics, and psychological associations of sleep disruption in patients with cancer: University of Rochester Cancer Center-Community Clinical Oncology Program. |
| Palesh OG, Roscoe JA, Mustian KM, Roth T, Savard J, Ancoli-Israel S, Heckler C, Purnell JQ, Janelsins MC, Morrow GR. |
| Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology |
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| Drosophila male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female. |
| Isaac RE, Li C, Leedale AE, Shirras AD. |
| Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society |
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| Activation of serotonin 5-HT(1B) receptor in the dorsal raphe nucleus affects REM sleep in the rat. |
| Monti JM, Jantos H, Lagos P. |
| Behavioural brain research |
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| Parkin gene modifies the effect of RLS4 on the age at onset of restless legs syndrome (RLS). |
| Pichler I, Marroni F, Pattaro C, Lohmann K, de Grandi A, Klein C, Hicks AA, Pramstaller PP. |
| American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics |
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