Tag Archives : sleep deprivation

Sleep is one of the most important forms of resting our body, and to recharge energy. However, over-sleeping can be as harmful as sleep deprivation. Many go through either of these two problems in today’s fast world. Therefore, it’s important to know how many hours we must sleep daily depending on the activities that we do during the time [...]

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 [...]

US President Barack Obama has allowed the publication of reports on the practices of the CIA. Some of these reports tell of torture that is illegal as per the treaty agreements of the Geneva Conventions, among other international legal limitations. He says those who actually conducted the torture will not be prosecuted, but those who legally defended [...]

The Obama administration will not act against the CIA agents who interrogated suspected terrorists, but it could take legal proceedings against members of the previous administration who provided the legal argument to defend the methods of torture. Answering questions from reporters at the White House, Obama on Tuesday did not rule out future charges [...]