Topic: United States
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you sleep less than six hours a night, you're increasing your risk of developing or dying from heart disease by 48 percent. At least, that's what U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott would have 1.2 billion people in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents who have a hard time getting their babies and toddlers to sleep at night may also often have trouble at mealtime, new study findings suggest.So-called behavioral insomnia, where a young child regularly resists bedtime or has ...
Millions of Americans say they're not getting enough sleep and that the lack of shut-eye affects their personal relationships, job performance, and mental and physical health, according to a new study.. A global survey of more than 30,000 people in 23 countries ...
Pipradrol ( Meretran ) is a mild central nervous system stimulant that is no longer widely used in most countries due to concerns about its abuse potential, although this is less of a problem than with other stimulants that still are in ...
Ramelteon , marketed as Rozerem by Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America , is the first in a new class of sleep agents that selectively binds to the MT1 and MT2 receptors in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), versus binding to GABA A receptors, such ...
Triazolam (marketed in English speaking countries under the brand names Apo-Triazo , Halcion , Hypam , and Trilam ) is a benzodiazepine derivative drug. It possesses pharmacological properties similar to that of other benzodiazepines, but it is generally only used as a ...
Provigil is Cephalon's trade name for modafinil, a drug prescribed to promote wakefulness in people with narcolepsy , shift work sleep disorder, and obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome. Indications and Dosage Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse suggested in ...
In a survey by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), 47 percent of U.S. workers polled said they have trouble sleeping, and two-thirds of those claimed their insomnia hinders their job performance, including their ability to handle stress, make decisions and solve problems. ...
Doctor Daniel Kripke, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California , San Diego , who specializes in sleep research, points to the fact that too much sleep could be harmful. "People who sleep especially more than seven or eight hours, ...
Tasimelteon is an experimental drug that acts like the melatonin , and may have the ability to take the edge off jet lag . Vivo: melatonin Tasimelteon is similar to melatonin in that it helps the body to regulate its sleep-wake cycle. ...
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