Bedtime found to be as important for preteens and teens as getting enough sleep… Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part. “Early to bed and early to rise” appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian youths keep slimmer and more physically active than their night-owl peers, ev…

Some people carry on learning while they sleep thanks to a “separate form of memory” that processes the day’s events, scientists believe. Even after people have gone to bed for the night their brains can carry on processing information according to the study by researchers at Michigan State University in the…

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the name given to the occurrence of a death to a otherwise healthy infant that is unexplained and in which all other causes have been ruled out through an autopsy, medical and death scene investigation. SIDS is the cause of more deaths of babies from age one month to [...]

Up-and-down cycle flattens as age disrupts pattern A marker for Alzheimer’s disease rises and falls in the spinal fluid in a daily pattern that echoes the sleep cycle, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. The pattern is strongest in healthy young people and reinforces a link b…

As part of the requirements of being board-certified in a specialty, a physician must participate in something called continuing medical education. So I recently went off to a meeting to learn more about lots of subjects and will be presenting some of them to you in the coming weeks. One of the things that was [...]