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Parents routinely administer a spoonful of cough syrup to a child who can't get to sleep because of a bad cough. The expectation is that the medicine will give the child--and the parents--a silent night. But does it work? When researchers gave a group of children with upper respiratory infections one of two active ingredients in over-the-counter cough syrup or a placebo, they found that the kids taking either of the cough-syrup ingredients had no better improvement in their symptoms than those taking the dummy liquid. In fact, all three groups had fewer symptoms...
...Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., nurses decided to see just how loud it got in recovery rooms where thoracic-surgery patients were trying to sleep. At the 7 a.m. shift change, the noise level shot up as high as 113 db--about as raucous as a jackhammer. The nurses finally hit on a simple solution that can help anyone get a little quiet time: they closed the door...
...prospect of some sort of antiaging medicine to protect cells is distant at best. Still, the study seems to tie together a lot of interesting threads. "What will really be interesting," says Sapolsky, "will be to trace the pathways--how you go from the level of people getting no sleep down to the cellular level. It will be amazing once we understand that...
...tall, gangling, aging and sick-looking man of 42 whose life and eccentricities have built a lurid legend? ... The private life of Howard Hughes might be described as a complete and carefully protected disorder. He has no interest in clothes, only the barest minimum of interest in food and sleep. He owns five suits, of which the newest is five years old; he is rumpled and disheveled most of the time, gets dressed up only for special occasions. He postpones haircuts as long as possible. "I used to be well-groomed," he says ... Since he sleeps only when...
That yawn was the first sign that you're not so awake as you think. After about 18 hours without sleep, your reaction time begins to slow from a quarter of a second to half a second and then longer. If you're like most people, you will start to experience bouts of microsleep--moments when you zone out for anywhere from two to 20 seconds and drift out of your lane or find that you have to keep rereading the same passage. Your...