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- Sleeping and the Job
- Even a few nights of poor sleep can have a dramatic impact on your productivity, mood, and overall effectiveness. Learn just how much damage you're doing to your cognitive functioning and your health by not sleeping enough…You'd never show up at the office drunk. Yet you might as well be...
- Articles 2009-03-04
- How to Work Smarter
- Improving job performance may be as easy as getting a good night's rest. MoneyWatch's Eric Schurenberg explains how crucial sleep can be.
- Videos 2009-03-11
- Sleep Your Way to the Top
- Want to think faster, make better decisions, and get ahead at work? The secret: Get enough sleep.The workplace is perhaps the ultimate obstacle course. And its difficulty level has only increased now that layoffs threaten almost every company and those left remaining are required to do more just to stay...
- Articles 2009-03-16
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- Sleep deprivation costs Japan's economy 30 bln dollars a year
- TOKYO AFP — The Japanese are known for their long work hours but a new study estimates that sleep deprivation costs their economy 3.5 trillion yen (30.7 billion dollars) a year, mainly in lost productivity. The study surveyed 3,075 employees of a chemical company in the western city of...
- Research articles 2006-06-09
- AMA Survey Finds Next Generation of Physicians Plagued by Sleep Deprivation
- CHICAGO, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Many medical students and residents in hospitals across the country are plagued by sleep deprivation and fatigue, according a new American Medical Association AMA member survey released today. The survey was conducted to determine what effect resident duty hour requirements, implemented by the Accreditation...
- Research articles 2005-06-17
- Why we're not immune to losing sleep.
- Byline: Anil Ananthaswamy Sep 18, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Lack of sleep could affect the body much more seriously than previously believed by scientists. Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen of the University of Helsinki, has found that sleep deprivation triggered an immune...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- Sleep Well and Prosper
- Getting a good night's sleep is the single best way you never thought of to improve your abilities and human capital literally overnight. Sleep deprivation negatively impacts your decision-making, health, productivity, and mood, often in very significant ways…Pulling all-nighters for work used to be a sign of your drive and...
- Articles 2009-03-04
- Sleep Affecting Work…Or Vice Versa?
- A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that job-related conflicts and issues can cause sleep problems. In fact, the study found that work conditions affected sleep patterns, instead of the other way around. "Massive changes over the past half-century have reshaped the workplace, with major...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Science Of Sleep: Mercer Sleep Centers, The
- "The beginning of health is sleep." So says an Irish proverb. But for many folks a good night's sleep is an impossible dream. The National Commission on Sleep Disorders estimates that sleep deprivation costs businesses $150 billion each year in higher stress and reduced worker productivity. Think sleep/wake disorders as...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Sleep Country USA Helps Reduce National Sleep Debt Through Innovative Product Lines; Space-Age Technology Places Tempur-Pedic Beds at Top of Survey Lists for Sleep Comfort
- KENT, Wash. -- Sleep Country USA, long recognized as the Pacific Northwest's leading retailer of mattresses, is now acknowledged as the retail leader in the specialty sleep segment of the industry. Sleep Country is the Pacific Northwest's largest carrier of NASA-recognized Tempur-PedicR beds, hailed as one of the greatest innovations...
- Research articles 2005-01-10
- Sleep disorders create growing opportunities for hospitals.(Brief Article)
- Chronic sleep deprivation has become standard practice for countless Americans. Now averaging just 6.5 hours of sleep a night, we as a nation are coming to work tired. We're driving home tired. Fatigue and sleep disorders, as a result, are on the rise, crossing all occupations,...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Management Strategies for Sleep Disorders To Be Presented at the 13th Annual Congress on Women's Health, June 4-7, 2005 on Hilton Head Island, SC
- NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Women are at increased risk for sleep deprivation, which takes a significant physical and psychological toll on a woman's mood and performance during the day. Joyce Walsleben, R.N., Ph.D., Director of the NYU Sleep Disorders Center, will address special considerations and optimal therapies for sleep disorders...
- Research articles 2005-05-03
- Top-Line Findings on CX717 from the Darpa-Sponsored Shift Work Simulation Study Will Be Presented at Sleep 2006 Meeting; Additional CX717 Data from the UK Sleep Deprivation Study to Be Presented at the Same Meeting
- IRVINE, Calif. -- Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: COR), announced that results from two studies with its lead AMPAKINER drug, CX717, will be presented at the Sleep 2006 meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Thomas Balkin, Chief, Department of Behavioral Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research WRAIR, Silver Spring,...
- Research articles 2006-06-21
- Americans skip sleep to make time for leisure activities
- Americans who log long hours on the job find the time for leisure and other activities by cutting down on sleep, a study reports today. "We only have 24 hours in a day," says Mathias Basner, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine....
- Research articles 2007-08-30
- Singing For Your Sleep
- Sgt. Ben Allbright knows something about sleep deprivation. During the first six months of the Iraq war, his job was to guard prisoners in Al Qaim, a makeshift base near the Syrian border where U.S. troops conducted aggressive hunts for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Every day, soldiers hauled...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- Getting A Good Night`s Sleep; Fashion Week: Color Forecasting; Mothers Of Invention, Bringing Ideas To Market; Beware Online File Sharing;
- KATHLEEN HAYS, CNNfn ANCHOR, THE FLIPSIDE: Millions of Americans have trouble sleeping. Research shows that chronic sleep deprivation can have far-reaching effects on concentration, productivity and mood. Fortunately, there are solutions and remedies. Valerie Morris has the report. BEGIN VIDEOTAPE VALERIE...
- Research articles 2004-09-17
- Can't remember what you just read? Take a nap.
- Byline: Andy Coghlan Dec 06, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Researchers at Princeton University studied the effect of sleep deprivation on rats. They found that stress hormones built up in the hippocampus, which impeded the growth of the cells responsible for...
- Research articles 2006-12-06
- How to Rest for Success
- Not sleeping enough could damage your career — and your health. How to make sure you get enough shut-eye every night, from avoiding that afternoon coffee break to setting up your bedroom properly to establishing a regular sleep schedule… Not sleeping well lately? Wonder why. Perhaps it's because your division...
- Articles 2009-03-04
- Sleeping your way to the top.
- Byline: Sora Song Jan 11, 2006 (Time Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- One sign of chronic sleep deprivation is "microsleep", increasingly common as sleep deprivation reaches epic proportions. ...
- Research articles 2006-01-11
- Counting sheep in the White House
- Among the problems plaguing the president may be one that can afflict even nonadulterers: sleep deprivation. Experts say Clinton is a prime candidate for the disorder. Irritability, impaired judgment and bags under the eyes all are symptoms of sleep deprivation -- symptoms some claim to see in a...
- Research articles 1998-09-28
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