Word: insomnia
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Estrogen (with progestin) in low doses can relieve hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia, but long-term use is discouraged. Hormones increase the risk of breast cancer, blood clots and heart disease...
...These drugs, alternatives to hormone therapy for women at risk for reproductive cancers, can relieve hot flashes and insomnia. Side effects may include weight gain...
...determining the life span, or what engineers call fatigue life, of a welded joint are notoriously imprecise. Dong refused to resign himself to the same guesswork that other engineers have long thought unavoidable. A man who has to keep himself from thinking after 9 p.m. in order to prevent insomnia, he had his eureka moment while reading himself to sleep five years ago. On a magazine ad covered in his scribblings, Dong's method, dubbed Verity, was born. Engineers had been calculating fatigue life the wrong way for 60 years. Push your hand against a tabletop. Force is the amount...
...HOPE FOR INSOMNIACS The sleepless will soon have a new weapon to use in their nightly battle against insomnia. The drug, available next month under the brand name Rozerem, is related to the hormone melatonin, and will be the first FDA-approved prescription sleep aid not listed as a controlled substance...
Three out of four prescriptions written for insomnia are for potentially addictive benzodiazepines, according to a new study in the journal Sleep. The reason may be financial: newer, nonaddictive drugs are pricier...