Sleep Medicine
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Insulin Pump Glitches: A Call to End Daylight Saving Time?
It’s unclear how often DST changes lead to problems with insulin pumps, reflecting difficulties in tracking flaws and glitches in medical devices...
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Philips Respironics Issues Update on Ventilator Alarm Failure
New guidance issued for OSA treatment device, OmniLab Advanced+ ventilator, which has had alarm failure, loss of therapy.
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Chronotherapy: Why Timing Drugs to Our Body Clocks May Work
More research showed circadian medicine — timing drug-taking to one’s body clock — could reduce side effects and improve the effectiveness of a...
From the Journals
Too Little Sleep Raises Health Risks for Teens With T1D
“Sleep may be an important and novel target for improving health in individuals with T1D, particularly when initiated in adolescence or early in...
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Is Melatonin a Valuable Resource or Children’s Health Risk?
Melatonin supplements are unregulated and use in children could carry risks of unintentional dosing and creating poor sleep habits.
Letters from Maine
SUID and a Cardboard Box
From the Journals
Most Sudden Infant Deaths Occur in Shared Sleep Space
At least 76% of all sudden, unexpected infant deaths happened when there were multiple unsafe sleep factors, regardless of sleep sharing status....
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Circadian Blood Pressure Shifts Earlier in Children With Moderate to Severe OSA
In children with moderate to severe OSA, both systolic BP and diastolic BP were significantly elevated compared with the control group.
From the Journals
U.S. kids are taking melatonin for sleep, despite evidence gap
These findings should prompt clinicians to discuss with parents the various factors that could be driving sleep disturbances, and potential safety...
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Children and preteen use of melatonin as sleep aid increased
Usage of melatonin more than doubled in children and teenagers from 2017 to 2020.
Letters from Maine
Knowing when enough is enough
In my opinion, any child who is cranky and not obviously sick is overtired until proven otherwise.