Tag Archives : Insomnia

Undoubtedly, this is a pillow like no other. PolarPillow is a special pillow designed to keep your head cool and sweat-free even on the sultriest nights. This one-of-a-kind pillow consists of 200 ounces of gel that ensures a chilled, refreshing effect to help you fall asleep. This cooling pillow uses endothermic gel technology. According to the PolarPillow [...]

A study by U.S. researchers shows that the use of communication services for teens at night can make them look even more hostile the next day. Dr. Peter Polos, JFK Medical Center, United States, believes that text messaging and other mobile communication services (Internet, for example) are associated with excessive movements during the night, insomnia [...]

Pregnant, elderly, people with insomnia and those who misuse alcohol will have to add another prescription to your list of risky activities: television in three dimensions. At least that’s what the site recommends the company Samsung, which already sells its televisions in 3D. If you do not belong to any of these groups do not think it is safe [...]

An Associated Press research based on ‘dozens of studies and interviews with more than 100 sources’ reveal the existence of ‘an underground medical system operating in plain sight, with a different standard than the rest of medical care, and millions of people using it on blind faith.’ The World Health Organization has even reached the point [...]

Touted as a clean, renewable, and environmentally-friendly energy source, wind power may have its ‘own environmental problems.’ The energy source’s infrasonic waves produced by the windmills’ rotors may cause health problems in humans that manifest in muscle pains, headaches, tremors, and insomnia. Incidences in Japan have been reported. “Wind-power [...]

A frantic phone call received from Michael Jackson four days before his death made Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, suspect that the singer had taken the anesthetic drug Diprivan (Propofol) to be able to sleep. Over the recent months, Jackson had been suffering from persistent insomnia, making him beg [...]

An extremely powerful drug used for surgical anesthesia, Propofol, was found in the home of Michael Jackson after his death. This medicine is strictly issued to medical personnel alone. Authorities are wondering how Jackson was able to possess such a drug. An unidentified information source said, “It is inconceivable that such a drug is prescribed [...]

Insomniacs deal with endless sleepless nights wrestling with fatigue, the feeling that one may fall into deep sleep any second but staying constantly unable to gain that peaceful state. Sleep, and dreams as well, have long been proven to be survival mechanism and the inability to fall asleep can thus have hazardous effects on one’s health. The link [...]

Contrary to what we might think, insomnia is far more destructive than just the irritation that people who have sleepless nights feel. A new scientific research has found that the indirect costs of untreated insomnia are far more than the costs of its requisite medications. The indirect costs outweigh the direct costs of treatment. In Quebec, Canada, [...]

If you are middle aged and not getting enough sleep, you must perhaps blame the clogged arteries in your heart. A new study reveals that heart disease and calcification in the heart could result in sleeplessness in the aged. This could be taken as a warning and appropriate measures to thwart further deterioration or clogging of arteries can be considered. If [...]