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Novel Drug Helps Insomniacs Sleep Better (CME/CE)

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- A drug that blocks the brain mechanisms that keep people awake appears to help those with primary insomnia fall asleep and stay asleep longer than placebo, researchers rep...

A Parkie Posts From A Bedside In Budapest

Précis:  Budapest is fast asleep. So late is the hour that even the castle and basilica, so beautifully illuminated earlier, seem also to be dormant....

Merck Poised To Soar On New Insomnia Drug

By Income Hunter:In my career as a psychotherapist, I have seen more people complaining about not being able to fall asleep than about any other psychological issue. While any psychological distress m...

Sleep Problems Tied to Prostate Cancer Risk (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Men who have difficulty falling asleep at night or staying asleep may be at increased risk for prostate cancer, researchers found.

Step into the Twilight Zone: Day 25, or A Walk Through Santiago's Witching Hour

"The witching hour, someone had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out fr...

New Phase III Data Showed Merck's Investigational Insomnia Medicine Suvorexant Improved Patients' Ability To Fall Asleep And Stay Asleep

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced new data from two pivotal Phase III efficacy trials for suvorexant, the investigational medicine Merck is developi...

Tired, But Awake: Sleep Disorders Lead To 253 Million Days Of Sick Leave A Year In The United States Alone

Insomnia and sleep apnoea are turning us into major health service consumers, causing us to be less productive at work, and may even lead to serious accidents. If you can't sleep at night, you're not...

Subcortical damage is 'primary cause' of neurological deficits after 'awake craniotomy'

Injury to the subcortical structures of the inner brain is a major contributor to worsening neurological abnormalities after "awake craniotomy" for brain tumors, reports a study in the February issue...

Increased oesophageal acid exposure at the beginning of the recumbent period is primarily a recumbent-awake phenomenon.

Background A significant increase in oesophageal acid exposure during early recumbent period has been demonstrated. Aim To determine if acid reflux during the early recumbent period occurs in the recu...

Asleep-Awake-Asleep Technique During Carotid Endarterectomy.

Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Isolated-Office and True Resistant Hypertension Determined by Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.

Hypertension is defined as resistant to treatment when a therapeutic plan including ≥3 hypertension medications failed to sufficiently lower systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures (BPs)....

Sleep-Time Blood Pressure and the Prognostic Value of Isolated-Office and Masked Hypertension.

BackgroundElevated sleep-time blood pressure (BP) is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than the awake or 24 h BP means. However, discrepancies in the diagnosis of hypertension between clinic a...

Sleepiness is not always perceived before falling asleep in healthy, sleep-deprived subjects.

OBJECTIVE: To test whether subjects spontaneously signal sleepiness before falling asleep under monotonous conditions. METHODS: Twenty-eight healthy students were deprived of sleep for one night and t...