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Sleeping pill spend hits £50m

Monday 14th May 2012

A surge in the demand for sleeping pills and associated drugs has led to the annual cost for the NHS hitting nearly £50m, it has been reported. The number of prescriptions written for sleep aids in 2010/11 was reported at 15.3m, almost a million...

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Distractions in your bedroom

Friday 25th March 2011

Losing out on your sleep can seriously affect the quality of your life, as without sleep you feel lethargic, easily irritable and if you are subject to prolonged occurrences of sleep deprivation, even depression. Therefore it is important to avoid any...

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How to sleep on a plane

Monday 28th February 2011

As with sleeping in a bedroom, the surrounding environment is the crucial factor. However, unlike a bedroom that can be intricately tailored to become a pitch dark, quiet and cool space, an aeroplane cabin is invariably noisy, lit-up, stuffy and - perhaps...

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Sleeping helps improve memory of new words

Thursday 4th November 2010

A recent study by the Harvard Medical School and University of York into the connection between sleep and the memory of new words was published in the journal Neuroscience recently. The study looked at how brain activity during sleep affects the integration...

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Pregnant Women sleeping patterns

Friday 15th October 2010

The sleeping pattern of pregnant women in the first 3 months is crucial in maintaining healthy blood pressure and avoiding pre-eclampsia the University of Washington found in a study published in Sleep recently. The study discovered that out of the 1,272...

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