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Although you may get a second wind with the rising of the sun, the longer you stay up, the more your condition deteriorates. "By the second night, oh, my goodness, it's extremely dramatic--beyond double what it was the first night," says David Dinges, a sleep expert at the...
The inability to sleep is called insomnia, but what do you call the unwillingness to sleep, as in Warren's case? "Somnorexia"? Perhaps it's time this condition had a name, because in this age of flexible work schedules, all-night dining, round-the-clock cable news and home espresso...
Asthma, for all the problems it causes, is an eminently controllable condition, provided children take their medications, limit exposure to allergens and visit their doctor regularly. Nonetheless, Asthma Action America--a national education organization composed of 21 health groups, including the American Lung Association and the American College of Emergency...
The study, which was the result of a survey of 41,000 households, came up with other troubling numbers: 23% of asthmatic kids made at least one trip to the emergency room in the past year; 54% missed some school or day care; 62% had to limit their activities as...
One of the reasons they're not is a failure of communication. Fully 71% of youngsters between ages 10 and 15 did not agree with their parents about the severity of their condition. More often than not, it was the parents who didn't realize how bad the problem was...