New York Times (blog)

Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Cancer Risk
New York Times (blog)
Ryan Collerd for The New York Times A CPAP device is used to treat sleep apnea. Two new studies have found that people with sleep apnea, a common disorder that causes snoring, fatigue and dangerous pauses in breathing at night, have a higher risk of ...
Sleep Apnea Linked to Higher Cancer Death RiskPhiladelphia Inquirer
Sleep apnea linked to cancer in latest studiesToronto Star
Sleep apnea associated with higher mortality from cancer: studyMedical Xpress

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Sleep Is Better Than Sex
Wall Street Journal
But, Mr. Rinaldi says, as his team looked into the idea, they found something unexpected: Sleep appeared to be the key to increasing women's libido. In focus groups, the researchers started asking women, "Would you rather have better sex, ...



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A Good Night's Sleep Or Good Sex? Do Mattresses Force Us To Choose?
Huffington Post
By Deborah Dunham for Blisstree Which would you rather have: good sleep or good sex? This is the dilemma that many couples are facing when it comes time to buy a new mattress. It seems that sales of those super-plush mattresses are on the rise, ...
What to watch out for when buying a mattress, bed and beddingOregonLive.com

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Obstructive sleep apnea can be managed successfully in the primary care setting
Medical Xpress
Patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be successfully managed in a primary care setting by appropriately trained primary care physicians (PCPs) and community-based nurses, according to Australian researchers.

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A broken night's sleep
Fraser Coast Chronicle
Picture this: we're in a beautiful albergue in a small north-Spanish village called Los Arcos, it's been a wonderful night of food and wine and we're settling down for a wonderful sleep - then off goes Poppa Bear.

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SIDS is easily prevented
Washington Post
The May 8 Health article “Some parents don't give a nod to 'Back to Sleep' ” was troubling to those of us who work with families whose babies have died of sudden infant death syndrome. The advice for safe sleep for babies is not onerous.
Breastfed until she was three, now she's a confident teenIrish Independent

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The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)

Co-sleeping with infant trendy but also dangerous (By Dr. Alice Chenault)
The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
Backers say its four major tenets - breast-feeding into toddlerhood, "wearing" the infant all day in a sling, bringing the baby into the parents' bed to sleep ("co-sleeping"), and sprinting to soothe every cry - build the strongest foundation for ...



Night-owl Federer seeks sleep
SPORT24
"I've probably had night sessions for the last 10-11 nights, it catches up with you, but at least you can sleep in. "I'm not complaining but you need that dinner and time to relax and not have to go to bed right away. It's tough and it's always been ...

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Treatment of childhood obstructive sleep apnea reverses brain abnormalities
Medical Xpress
Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children normalizes disturbances in the neuronal network responsible for attention and executive function, according to a new study. "OSA is known to be associated with deficits in attention, cognition, ...

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Don't Sleep on the Black Super PACs
Politic365
If your goal is for President Obama to win a second term and you know the key to that is getting his Black base out at the polls in November then you might want to donate or support to the only Super PAC out with the goal of getting 1 million Black ...


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