Los Angeles Times

Sleep Apnea Linked to Silent Strokes
WebMD
1, 2012 -- A common sleep disorder is associated with an increased risk of symptomless but serious strokes called “silent strokes,” German researchers report. Sleep apnea, a condition marked by periodic interruptions in breathing during sleep, ...
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Sleep apnea ups risk of silent strokesTimes of India
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Sleep Like a Homeless Person From the Comfort of Your Home
Gawker
It "lets you sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless person doesn't have to." Of course, only a portion of the proceeds go to a homeless charity Big Issue, so you could just donate your $90 directly. This whole thing is gross: the glorification of ...
Sleep like a 'tramp' at chic Stockholm storeThe Local.se

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Los Angeles Times

Sleep Apnea, Silent Strokes Linked: Study
Huffington Post
Sleep apnea, the disorder that causes a person to stop breathing suddenly while sleeping, is already known to increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart failure, stroke and daytime sleepiness. And a new study suggests that the sleep disorder is ...
Sleep apnea may make people more prone to silent strokesLos Angeles Times
Sleep Apnea Raises Silent Stroke RiskDaily Gossip
Study links sleep apnea with a higher silent stroke riskPress TV
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Leadership Newspapers

Sleep Mysteries That Still Elude Us
Leadership Newspapers
There are many mysteries that surround sleep - something that is indispensable in human life- that is yet to be fully understood, even though we engage in it daily. Till date, many things about sleep still confound or elude us. Conditions such as sleep ...



Sleep Troubles May Up Prostate Cancer Risk
MedPage Today
This study found that severe sleep problems suggestive of insomnia are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer among older men. Note that the study did not address whether treating these men's sleep problems would reduce their prostate ...

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Daily Mail

How to... get a good night's sleep: Expert tips to help you snooze soundly
Daily Mail
By India Sturgis Who thinks they get enough sleep? The Sleep Council says just one in ten of us always gets a good night's rest. So what can we do? Here Slumberdown's sleep expert Phil Atherton to give us his tips. Avoid food before bedtime as your ...

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Parent Traps: How old is too old to sleep in the family bed?
Vancouver Sun
THIS WEEK'S PARENT TRAP My 15-year-old daughter absolutely refuses to sleep in her own room. Over the past three years she crawls into bed with my husband and I, almost on a nightly basis. It's now the only way she'll get to sleep.

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Son won't go to sleep before midnight
TheReporter.com
How do you get a teenager (age 16) to go to sleep before midnight -- so that he wakes up in the morning acting like a human being? (I'm afraid I can't stay up late enough to monitor him once he heads to his bedroom.) He averages six hours of sleep a ...

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One Sleep Striker Down, Other Is Mainlining Coffee
DCist.com
"Distinctly unhealthy," is what Dr. Helene Emsellem, a neurologist in Chevy Chase, Md. who specializes in sleep disorders, called the "sleep strike." By forcing themselves to remain awake, the demonstrators were putting themselves at great risk for ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Reset your body clock
Sydney Morning Herald
We know that people are often categorised as ''larks'' or ''owls'', those who prefer to sleep in and stay up late or rise with the dawn and turn in early; that teenagers struggle to get out of bed in the morning; that night-shift workers often battle ...

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