Drug may reduce SIDS in children with achondroplasia
A drug that boosts bone growth in children with achondroplasia may also reduce their chances of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sleep apnoea and needing...
Tag: sleep apnoea
Childhood risk factors for sleep apnoea in middle age
Childhood risk factors for sleep apnoea in middle age identified in long-term study: Researchers from the University of Melbourne have been able to track childhood risk...
Could a nasal spray treat obstructive sleep apnoea?
A drug in development for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) has shown promising results, after researchers from Flinders University tested the treatment in people for the...
Link between sleep apnoea and dementia
UQ study explains link between sleep apnoea and dementia: Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered a link between obstructive sleep apnoea and an...
Researchers reduce severity of sleep apnoea
New research published in The Journal of Physiology shows that researchers have successfully repurposed two existing medications to reduce the severity of sleep apnoea in...
Cerebrovascular disease: Neural network enables assessment of sleep apnoea severity
A new neural network developed by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital enables an easy and accurate assessment of sleep...
The strange world of sleep disorders
Dr Neil Stanley is one of the UK’s foremost sleep experts and author of How to Sleep Well. Over the last 37 years, he has...
All you need to know about snoring
Snoring may inspire jokes but it is no laughing matter if you are one of the estimated 40 per cent of adults affected in the...
Tired all the time? It may be sleep apnoea
If you’re tired all the time, you might not merely be working hard, you may have serious underlying medical condition known as obstructive sleep apnoea....
10 Things you didn’t know about sleep
We all need to sleep, and lack of sleep is linked to depression, behavioural disorders and some of our leading preventable diseases including obesity, heart...
