Artificial night time lighting is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer in men. According to research by Professor Boris A. Portnov and colleagues of the University of Haifa, exposure to artificial light sources at night increases the risk of prostate cancer the more a man is exposed. In previous research, the same team found an... Read more
People who suffer with insomnia are five times more likely to have paranoid thinking. Dr. Daniel Freeman, a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, is a well known researcher in the area of paranoid thinking. His study, the first to examine the association between sleep loss and... Read more
A new study into the effect of light exposure therapy, coupled with a steady sleep schedule and dark glasses, allows for increased alertness during night shifts and a decent sleep during days off. The study is published in the December edition of Sleep.
The number of people who work in our 24 hour society is increasing. Shift work has... Read more
The exact cause of night terrors in children is not really known but associations have always been drawn between events such as disrupted sleep patterns or childhood anxiety. Now, researchers from the University of Montreal, have established that slightly less than half of night terrors could be due to heredity.
When a child experiences... Read more
News that a combination of regular sleep and daily exercise may significantly reduce cancer risk in women, has been presented at a conference of the American Association for Cancer Research.
James McCain, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute, tracked 5,968 women over the age of 18, in Maryland for 10 years. When his results were... Read more
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