A New Prescription for Sleepless Americans: Take Advice Not a Pill
For many sleepless Americans and their doctors, the go-to treatment for insomnia has long been a prescription for sleeping pills. But America may now be waking up to a new era of treatment ushered in by a recent recommendation from the American College of Physicians (ACP) that favors behavioral therapy over meds as the first-line treatment for insomnia. This is welcome news.
Insomnia is a prevalent and debilitating condition that affects over 60 million Americans, and with associated healthcare costs that are estimated in the range of $30 to $107 billion each year. This overall total could double when the additional $60 b...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Sleep Mistake Flight Attendants Make When It Comes To Jet Lag
Find yourself draggy for a week after a redeye? Just think of the flight attendants and pilots who do it all the time.
Former Continental Airlines flight attendant Abbie Unger told The Huffington Post that for her, the most grueling part of working transcontinental flights was the varied schedule. Unger, who is also a HuffPost blogger, was an on-call flight attendant and did not have a set number of flights she worked per month.
“I never worked a day that was nine to five, so I was constantly trying to regulate my body clock as I juggled early morning check-ins followed by late night check-ins,” she said.
To he...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 27, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
How Flight Crews Really Deal With All That Jet Lag
Find yourself draggy for a week after a redeye? Just think of the flight attendants and pilots who do it all the time.
Former Continental Airlines flight attendant Abbie Unger told The Huffington Post that for her, the most grueling part of working transcontinental flights was the varied schedule. Unger, who is also a HuffPost blogger, was an on-call flight attendant and did not have a set number of flights she worked per month.
“I never worked a day that was nine to five, so I was constantly trying to regulate my body clock as I juggled early morning check-ins followed by late night check-ins,” she said.
To he...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Slowave Movement Wants To Disrupt The Way We Think About Sleep
Sometime in the summer of 2013, a New York City-based writer named Fiona Duncan began noticing an abundance of jeans, fleece and sneakers in the historically fashion-fanatic neighborhood known as Soho. To help explain the unnerving prevalence of "stylized blandness" and "dad-brand non-style" hanging about, she borrowed -- and subsequently popularized -- a term that's all but commonplace now: normcore. The term is simple and concise, easily packaged next to a pound sign, ready to fall from the lips of a trendy teen. Adidas tennis shoes, "Seinfeld" and President Obama all became part and parcel of the normcor...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How A Nearly Fatal Drowsy Driving Accident Saved One Man's Life
David Claxton is not your typical candidate for sleep apnea, a common disorder in which you stop breathing while you sleep. The 40-year-old Kentucky writer doesn't have any of the major risk factors: He's not overweight or elderly, nor does he have any family history of the condition. And he may never have found out that he suffered from it -- were it not for a dramatic accident. For nearly a decade, Claxton put up with poor sleep patterns and complained of daytime sleepiness to his doctors, who prescribed him sleeping pills and antidepressants. None of them worked. He wasn't a chronic insomniac, nor was he depressed....
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Morning Break: Trump on Health; Mother Nature's Ambien; Cold or Allergy?
(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - April 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Arianna: 'Orgasms Are Mother Nature's Ambien'
Sleep isn't just important for your physical health-- it's also the key to a good sex life.
Appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington said that there's a "connection between sleep deprivation and erectile disfunction."
"Orgasms are Mother Nature's Ambien-- without side effects!" she said.
Science supports this theory. As Men's Health magazine explains, "testosterone levels plummet when you don't get enough sleep, making it much tougher to get and sustain an erection. But you may be too tired to care, since low T also triggers a drop in men's desir...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lupin launches generic insomnia drug in US
Drug major Lupin has launched a generic insomnia drug, Zolpidem Sublingual tablets, in the US market with 180-days of marketing exclusivity. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - April 5, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics and risk of fall-related injury - Tom SE, Wickwire EM, Park Y, Albrecht JS.
The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that use of zolpidem, eszopiclone, and zaleplon would be associated with increased risk of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and hip fracture. METHODS: We conducted a case-crossove... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Zolpidem use and motor vehicle collisions in older drivers - Booth JN, Behring M, Cantor RS, Colantonio LD, Davidson S, Donnelly JP, Johnson E, Jordan K, Singleton C, Xie F, McGwin G.
Background/Objectives
Prescription sleep medication use is most prevalent among women and older adults. Morning drowsiness and impaired coordination are side-effects of sleep medications that may affect driving safety. The association between current use ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 3, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Is there a sleeping pill, car crash connection?
A new study looks at what happens in older Americans who took Ambien (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - February 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why I Stopped Taking Sleep Medication
When I was eight, my hair caught on fire in the middle of the night. I'd been illicitly reading far past my bedtime and eventually fell asleep with the lamp on. I woke to the awful smell of smoldering hair and ran downstairs in a panic, bursting into my parents' room. "My hair's on fire!" I shrieked. My mom and dad groaned, rolled over and shooed me away. They weren't neglectful. They were simply the weary parents of a budding insomniac. I've had a hard time sleeping through the night for as long as I can remember. When you have insomnia, exhaustion becomes so oppressive that if you're offered a quick fix, you take it....
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sleeping Pills May Spell Trouble for Older Drivers
Study found risk of crashes more than doubled for those over 80 who used Ambien (Source: U.S. News - Health)
Source: U.S. News - Health - February 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sleeping Pills May Spell Trouble for Older Drivers
Study found risk of crashes more than doubled for those over 80 who used Ambien
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Insomnia, Seniors' Health (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - February 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sleeping Pills May Spell Trouble for Older Drivers
THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2016 -- Older drivers who use the sleeping pill zolpidem, sold widely as Ambien, may have a higher risk of motor vehicle crashes, a new study suggests.
Researchers evaluated the five-year driving records of 2,000 Alabama... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 25, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
