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How often have you laid in bed scrolling through news stories, social media or responding to a text? After staring at the screen, have you ever found that it is harder to fall asleep? It’s widely believed that the emitted blue light from phones disrupts melatonin secretion and sleep cycles. To reduce this blue light

New insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time has been published today in the open-access eLife journal. The study in mice suggests that second-order neurons in the retina, which relay visual signals to the retinal ganglion cells that project into the brain,

So, parents, how many of you planned a date night this Valentine’s Day? I know I sure didn’t. The idea didn’t even cross my mind. According to a new survey out by Groupon and OnePoll, I am not alone. It turns out, a majority of us just flat-out stopped considering this a holiday for couples

Jeremy Roloff and Audrey Roloff spent the night in the emergency room with their 2-year-old daughter, Ember, on Wednesday, December 18. “Currently 4 a.m.,” Jeremy, 29, captioned his Instagram Story from the hospital. “Been here since 10:30 p.m.” He explained in a video: “Ember’s fever spiked pretty bad, and we just decided to go to

May we have your attention! Costco (the bulk grocery store that has gifted us with giant donuts, 7-pound Nutella tubs, and 300-bottle wine fridges) has done it again and pushed us into the future thanks to this glorious cheese flight. View this post on Instagram ?These #kirklandsignature #cheese flights are the best!! Now a new

Sleeping myths debunked: Getting fewer than five hours a night increases risks of heart disease, strokes and early death and alcohol before bed DOESN’T help you nod off, study finds New York University published the study which looked into sleep and health They searched more than 8,000 websites, news reports and publications  Dr Rebecca Robbins

Wine DOES get better (for you) with age: A glass a night is good for the elderly – but not for anyone else Drinking was found to offset the effects of certain age-related diseases including coronary heart disease, diabetes and dementia   Researchers found 60% of years of potential life lost were in the 20 to

The winter months are an ideal time to turn your attention inward and think of how you can establish something new for your family to do together indoors. If you can find the right thing, perhaps it will become a family ritual. Family rituals contribute to the rhythm and predictability of family life and they

Middle-aged men who sleep five hours or less per night have twice the risk of developing a major cardiovascular event during the following two decades than men who sleep seven to eight hours, according to research presented today at ESC Congress 2018. Study author Ms Moa Bengtsson, of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, said: “For

(HealthDay)—Children and their mothers have poorer quality sleep in pediatric hospital wards than they do at home, and this may be due to significantly raised sound levels in the hospital, according to a study published online July 17 in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Rosanna Bevan, B.M.B.S., from the University of Southampton in the

Could this be a cure for insomnia? How a sleep mask can send out a ‘camera flash’ of light to reset the clock for night owls A new, high-tech sleep mask sends out millisecond pulses of light as you sleep The pulses stimulate nerves that are sensitive to light and that help produce melatonin, the

It’s not just children! Grown adults also suffer from dramatic night terrors Shockingly, around 20 per cent of six-year-olds have nightmares each week But, while 15 per cent of children have night terrors, so do 2 per cent of adults They occur in the non-REM stage of sleep, so people act out what’s happening Gasping

A study performed by an international team led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, reports a link between exposure to blue light at night and higher risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. Blue light is a range of the visible light spectrum emitted by