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New Treatment for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

By Hunter A Hearn MD

Feb 22, 12 11:30PM

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) is a form of sleepwalking where patients will enact their dream while asleep. This dream enactment behavior is not normal, as usually we are completely paralyzed whi le...
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What is a Healthy Scientific Ecosystem?

By Seth Roberts

Feb 09, 12 04:00AM

An area of science is an ecosystem in the sense that research builds on other research. In an ordinary ecosystem the animals and plants need each other. Different organisms add different things. Their contributions...
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Vitamin D3 in Morning Has Ambiguous Effects on Sleep and Energy (Story 15)

By Seth Roberts

Feb 08, 12 04:00AM

A reader named Murray Love made a comment about Vitamin D3 and sleep that at least sounds negative: As a counterpoint [to this post], I’ve been taking 4-5,000 IU of D3 for a couple of months now and...
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How Things Begin (honey wine vinegar)

By Seth Roberts

Feb 07, 12 04:00AM

At the recent Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, the most impressive product I encountered was a honey wine vinegar made by Slide Ridge Honey, a small family business in northern Utah. I interviewed th e...
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Police don’t get enough sleep

By Michael J Breus PhD

Feb 06, 12 09:31AM

This news concerns me both as a health issue and an issue of public safety: a survey of nearly 5,000 police officers in the United States and Canada revealed that these law enforcement professionals a re...
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Exercise and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

By Hunter A Hearn MD

Feb 05, 12 10:20PM

A few, small studies have shown that regular exercise can reduce the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as determined by the number of times the upper airway collapses per hour of sleep (AHI). There...
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A Possible Reason for Low Sperm Counts

By Steven Y Park MD

Feb 04, 12 07:35PM

Here’s an interesting article from 2004 showing how sperm counts in men living in Western industrialized countries are rapidly declining. In 1950, the average sperm count was 100 million sperm p r...
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Your Brain on Sleep

By Michael J Breus PhD

Feb 03, 12 10:54AM

There’s still a great deal of information about the effects of sleep on the brain that we don’t yet understand, so any research that sheds light on this subject is exciting and potentially important...
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Ask Dr. Park: Cutting Edge Surgical Options for Sleep Apnea

By Steven Y Park MD

Feb 02, 12 09:58AM

Please join me on Tuesday, February 22nd at 8 PM Eastern for my next Ask Dr. Park Teleseminar. This month, I’m going to do a presentation on the latest in surgical treatment options for obs tructive...
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How Infections Can Raise Stroke Risk In Children

By Steven Y Park MD

Feb 02, 12 12:57AM

Here’s an article showing that children who suffer from stoke had some sort of infection in the days leading up the event. Researchers from UCSF found that 29% of children who suffered a stroke had...
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