New scientific advances in gastroenterology presented at college's 68th annual meeting
...dy suggests a causal relationship between GERD and sleep apnea. Children and Constipation. This study explores generalized anxiety and defecation anxiety among children. Two keynote addresses will highlight the program. The J. Edward Berk Distinguished Lecture, "Demystifying Motility: Gut Motor Dys...World experts present respiratory and critical care research at CHEST 2003, intl scientific assembly
... lung cancer, critical and end-of-life care, COPD, sleep medicine, sepsis, thoracic surgery, tobacco cessat...ange of subspecialty topics, including obstructive sleep apnea, pediatric pulmonology, disaster medicine, pulmonary vascular disease, lung cancer, and critic...Deadly decision: Where should baby sleep?
ST. LOUIS -- Babies who are put to sleep in an adult bed face a risk of suffocation that is as much as 40 times greater than babies who sleep in standard cribs, a Saint Louis University researcher says in this month's issue of Pediatrics. "Th...Stanford research builds link between sleep, cancer progression
STANFORD, Calif. - A good night's sleep may be one weapon in the fight against cancer, acc...eep," Spiegel said. Of these factors, how well you sleep can seriously alter the balance of hormones in your body. This makes the sleep/wake cycle, also call...Study shows increased risk of cancer for stressed women
...th or longer, including tension, fear, anxiety, or sleep disturbances connected with conflicts in the family or at work. There were six degrees of stress varying from "no stress experience at all", up to "experienced mental stress constantly during the last five years". The women had follow-up examination...Study shows melatonin supplements may make standing a hazard for the cardiovascular-challenged
...udy suggests that taking melatonin supplements for sleep could exacerbate orthostatic intolerance, making them unable to evacuate the shuttle and compromising their safety." Melatonin is a hormone made by the pineal gland in the brain and secreted at night on a circadian, or 24 hour, cycle, to make people ...Chest 2003 registration open to media
..., mechanical ventilation, tobacco cessation, COPD, sleep medicine, pediatric pulmonology, disaster response, women's health, and thoracic surgery. Thousands of physicians and medical professionals will be on hand to choose from over 175 general scientific sessions, 10 honor lectures, 22 postgraduate cour...Chronic drinking increases cortisol during intoxication and withdrawal
...iatric consequences of drinking, which may include sleep disruption, cognitive deficits, diabetes, and mood disturbances."...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September 2003 (second issue)
...TIENTS WITH APNEA SHOW PERIODS OF STABLE SLEEP In sleep lab tests of 82 persons with sleep apnea, a medical scientist observed that about 82 percent of the patients with apneas had periods of...American Neurological Association 128th Annual Meeting
...nimal models of neurologic disease the origins of sleep disorders surprising commonalities of epilepsy, m... has begun to uncover the mechanisms that regulate sleep and wakefulness. Researchers will discuss these advances, and their application to disorders ranging...Sleep apnea treatment helps patients and partners
...y pressure (CPAP) for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) not only improves patients' lives, it ...epetitive episodes of upper airway closures during sleep that result in arousal from sleep and can often lead to daytime sleepiness. CPAP prevents upper air...Mayo Clinic study shows melatonin helps alleviate violent sleep disorder symptoms
...ms of REM-sleep behavior disorder (RBD), a violent sleep condition that manifests during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a stage of deep sleep in which most dreaming occurs. "Melatonin can be considered as one possible option for RBD," says Br...Obese individuals may be more susceptible to altitude sickness, researchers report
... fatigue, weakness, dizziness, lightheadedness and sleep disorders. The researchers' findings, reported in ...icine, also suggest that impaired breathing during sleep may be related to increased levels of AMS in obese individuals. "Based on the results from our study...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 19, 2003
...s of AMS and much lower blood oxygen levels during sleep at simulated high altitude. Obese people traveling to high altitudes should follow standard guidelines to ensure a slow, gradual ascent and should consider using a drug that eases breathing at high altitudes and facilitates acclimatization, the resea...How a nightcap may hinder rather than help your sleep
Many alcoholics have sleep problems while actively drinking and also after th...New research has found that recovering alcoholics' sleep problems last for many months. Difficulties with sleep onset appear to be more pronounced than with ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for August 2003 (first issue)
...iabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and sleep apnea, among other illnesses. The article's expert author points out that, when they visit a physician, few patients consider weight to be their main problem. He advises doctors to listen carefully to the problem that the patient wants to discuss. ...Job stress may be missing link between workplace exercise and heart risk
...chological stress related to work (asking how much sleep participants lost over worries about work, for example) they found an interesting connection. "We found that atherosclerosis progressed significantly faster in people with greater stress, and people who were under more stress also were the ones who e...Drivers with type-1 diabetes report increased incidence of car crashes
...tention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, those with sleep apnea and abusers of alcohol. Cox recently received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the additional effects of hypoglycemia and driving. He is currently working with mathematician, Boris Kovatchev, to find an algor...Study shows long-term stress appears to damage caregivers immune systems
...related behaviors including smoking, exercise and sleep patterns. "We found no other variables that accounted for the group difference in rate of change in IL-6," MacCallum said. Before and during the study, some of the spouses of the caregivers died, he said. Further analyses compared levels of the proin...High percentage of N.C. children suffer undiagnosed asthma, new study shows
...of wheezing once or more per month, 32 percent had sleep disturbances in the last four weeks, 7 percent vis...he long-term clinical implications include chronic sleep deprivation and the related reduced immune function, increased susceptibility to respiratory infecti...