Higher Levels Of Depression Experienced By ENT/Sleep Apnea Patients

Higher Levels Of Depression Experienced By ENT/Sleep Apnea Patients
Patients who experience a range of ear, nose, and throat-related health problems exhibited a greater prevalence of depression than is observed in the general population, says new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in Chicago, IL. In any given one-year period, approximately 9.5 percent of the population, or about 18.8 million American adults suffer from a depressive illness.

LUNESTA(R) Next-Day Function And Discontinuation Data From A Long-Term 12-Week Study In Elderly Patients Presented At ECNP
Sepracor Inc. (Nasdaq: SEPR) announced the presentation of LUNESTA ® brand eszopiclone Phase IV study data at the 21st European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Barcelona. The poster presentations reflected results from a 12-week, double-blind, randomized safety and efficacy study of 388 elderly patients (65-85 years of age) who were administered either LUNESTA 2 mg or placebo nightly.

Daily pill may heal hand eczema
The vitamin A-based drug worked for over half of the adults in a recent study.

Heavy snoring may be stroke risk factor
Heavy snoring is associated with plaque build-up or "atherosclerosis" in the carotid arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain and, therefore, may be a risk factor for stroke, according to findings in the journal Sleep.

Connection Between A Mother's Mood And Her Baby's Sleep
If there's one thing that everyone knows about newborn babies, it's that they don't sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. But in fact, those first six months of life are crucial to developing the regular sleeping and waking patterns, known as circadian rhythms, that a child will need for a healthy future. Some children may start life with the sleep odds stacked against them, though, say University of Michigan sleep experts who study the issue.

Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA
A virus that causes a universal childhood infection is often passed from parent to child at birth, not in the blood but in the DNA, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

A Link Between Staphylococcus Infection And SIDS
A new study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that Staphylococcus aureus and other bacterial infections may have been overlooked as possible causes of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In 2006, a paper written by Morris et al. found that a pure growth of a pathogen in blood or CSF was a potential contributing factor to death for people at all ages.