A recent review of a national telehealth program launched by the Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Rural Health, part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to improve access to sleep care for rural veterans shows the program successfully aided in the diagnosis of sleep apnea for participants. The paper, published in the Journal of…
Complementarian is a strange word. I never heard my parents or my pastor use it as I was growing up. I can’t recall the first time I heard it — though it was likely sometime in the early 2000s, as a young married woman, sitting under the teaching of John Piper. However, long before I…
Sree Roy: Hello and welcome. I’m Sree Roy with Sleep Review and I’m thrilled to be here with sleep Psychologist Jade Wu, PhD, DBSM. She is the author of Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications. She is also a Mattress Firm sleep advisor. We are celebrating Sleep Awareness Week from…
Overuse of mobile devices gets a bad rap, but an upside may be their ability to create a distraction and positively affect teenagers’ ability to sleep, shows new Flinders University research published in Sleep Advances. Feedback from over 600 teenagers, aged 12 to 18, at South Australian schools between June and September 2019 has led…
Gonzalo Labarca, MD, 2022 recipient of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Foundation and CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Sleep Medicine, will begin using grant funding to better understand sleep apnea in Latin American women. Labarca’s research, “Phenotyping obstructive sleep apnea in Latin American women: The Latin American sleep network,” seeks to use the…
Poor sleep could lead to between two and seven years worth of heightened heart disease risk and even premature death, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Sydney in collaboration with Southern Denmark University. The study, published in BMC Medicine, analyzed data from over 300,000 middle-aged adults from the UK…
Hong Kong-based Belun Technology received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 501(k) clearance for its next-generation Belun Sleep System, a photoplethysmography-based wearable ring to detect obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). According to a press release by Belun, the sleep system could potentially speed up OSA diagnosis for nearly 1 billion people worldwide. Belun received FDA clearance…
To kick off Sleep Awareness Week, the National Sleep Foundation released results from its annual Sleep in America Poll, highlighting a link between sleep and depression. The poll of approximately 1,000 adults found that those with good sleep were likely to be free of significant depressive symptoms. Over 90% of adults with “very good” sleep…
How strongly a vaccine protects you may depend on getting enough sleep in the days before and after inoculation, finds a new meta-analysis examining the relationship between sleep duration and the body’s response to vaccination. The multi-institution study published in Current Biology found that sleeping fewer than six hours per night around the time of…