Patients complain that the CPAP machines are noisy and the masks are uncomfortable.
There may soon be several new treatments for sleep apnea patients to choose from. None involve the annoying face mask from a CPAP machine.
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80% of us manage between six and nine hours a night; the other 20% sleep more or less than this.
A third of our lives is wasted sleeping – at least that’s how some people see it. There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day sometimes. When you feel that way do you yearn to be like the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was said to get by on just four hours sleep a night, or the artist Salvador Dali who wasted as little time as possible slumbering?
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Technology-free bedroom
Often times our world is changing for the better. There are new opportunities for us to stay informed, connected, entertained, and engaged through advancing technologies. Technology is becoming smaller, lighter, and more portable and these are good.
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Half of people check their phones immediately if they wake up during the night.
A new infographic by Online Psychology Degree shows the extent to which smartphones have basically become a new bodily appendage: (Infographic)
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Sleep helps eliminate fear.
We can reset our brains and calm our emotions by sleeping. Perhaps it can do more, though: if sleepers are exposed to odors they associate with bad memories, it appears they can lose the fear those memories bring.
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The average American only gets between six and six and a half hours of sleep a night.
Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything met Kevin Crain, a Managing Director at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, one morning at a conference and Kevin was feeling tired, as he did most days.
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Insufficient sleep can have serious and sometimes fatal consequences for tired workers and the people around them.
Thirty percent of the nation’s workers are sleeping under 6 hours a day, which is less than the 7 to 9 hours that the National Sleep Foundation recommends for healthy adults, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Many employees are feeling out of sorts and tired because the clocks have sprung ahead an hour.
Monday on Twitter, DST and daylight savings were trending, and the theme of many of the tweets had to do with workers’ difficulties adjusting to the time switcheroo.
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Sleep or die – lack of sleep can have serious effects to your health.
There could be serious risks to your health if you don’t get the right amount of sleep every night. Lack of sleep can leave long-lasting effects on your body and your mind. The medical perspective is irrefutable: lack of sleep is deadly.
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About 10 percent of children snore regularly.
Parents may have more to worry about than just a noisy bedtime when their children snore. Irregular breathing during sleep could actually have much more serious implications for a child’s behavior.
Continue reading… “Kids’ snoring linked to increased risk of behavioral problems”
Over half of office workers don’t consistently get a good night’s sleep.
The distinction of being among the lowest-paid workers in the United States has long been home health aides. It has now been revealed in a new study that they also get the least amount of sleep.
Continue reading… “Home health aides and lawyers are among the most sleep-deprived workers”
Sleeping on a problem makes them more upsetting.
Unpleasant experiences stay more upsetting if we sleep immediately after the event than if we digest the memory while still awake, researchers have found.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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