On my weekend bit for Global TV here in BC on Jan 5, I mentioned in my item that the US FDA had approved the release of a new sleeping pill called lemborexant (generic name). And I commented that if the data on which the US FDA relied to approve this new med is to […]
So, you all know that getting too little sleep or not getting enough good quality sleep is related to poorer health outcomes, meaning a higher risk not only of developing lots of chronic illnesses but also of dying prematurely. But it’s also the case that sleeping too many hours is related to higher risks of […]
Osteoporosis (OP) is of course a well-known hazard for women as they age, since OP is associated with a much higher risk of suffering a fracture, nearly always a result of a fall, and fractures of any kind raise the risk of all sorts of other health problems including a life of chronic pain, disability, […]
Everyone knows that exercising at night makes it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep, right? Well, maybe not. In a very small study of 11 middle-aged healthy male volunteers, researchers found not only that afternoon and evening exercise did not interfere with good quality sleep but also that exercise later in the day actually […]
According to results from the PESA CNIC- Santander Study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, both not getting enough sleep (less than 6 hours a night on average in this Spanish study) and suffering through frequently-disrupted sleep (in which a person wakes up several times a night) are linked to a […]
Common sense would tell you that most hip fractures in seniors occur in the winter when people with less mobility and resilience are more likely to fall on slippery – wet or icy – surfaces. But if your common sense tells you that, turns out that your common sense may be wrong, at least according […]
An interesting recent study published in Lancet Psychiatry found that a web-based program of cognitive behavioral could improve sleep in some people. There are several weaknesses in this study – online registration, self-reporting, large drop-out rate – but still, the results are encouraging in that insomnia is very prevalent and there are simply not enough […]
In an interesting study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers in the UK looked at 4,525 children aged 9-10 of multi-ethnic descent, living in England, and they found that all else being equal – adjusting for school, behaviour, medication use, socio-economic and social factors, etc (which is clearly a very difficult thing to do and […]
We all do it – read computers, laptops, notepads, cellular phones before trying to sleep – even though we know we shouldn’t because many studies have implicated the blue light emitted by such gadgets as interfering with sleep – harder to fall asleep, waking more often, waking early, etc. So you will all probably ignore […]
A survey of 850 people published in the New Scientist concludes that as one would expect, worrying too much is linked to a higher rate of nightmares (or as my awake-at-2 AM wife now calls them, Trumpmares). But surprisingly, at least among the people in this survey, sleeping more than 9 hours a night also […]