Sleep

Researchers studied patients with hepatitis C in order to find out the relationship between immune activation and chronic fatigue.

Men who don’t get much sleep also tend to make poor sexual decisions when it comes to HIV prevention, a new study suggests.

Telemedicine is extraordinarily promising for patients and practitioners, but there are lingering challenges that are keeping it from reaching its full potential.

Several studies have shown that patients with sleep apnea are more likely than others to develop atrial fibrillation, but recent information indicates that any type of disrupted sleep may indicate an elevated risk.

Antidepressant remission rates could be influenced by a precise sleeping schedule, according to findings presented in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Though air pollution has previously been associated with elevated rates of atopic dermatitis (AD), the reason for that correlation remained mostly a mystery until last week.

Approved by the FDA to treat plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and active Crohn's disease, ustekinumab appeared to benefit patients with severe atopic dermatitis (AD) in a small study seeking to correlate its immunologic effects with clinical efficacy.

A recent review of current research on atopic dermatitis (AD) treatments found that a clearer understanding of the pathogenesis of the phenotypes involved in the disease will lead to advances in new therapies.

Many patients with a variety of chronic pain conditions think negatively about how it will affect their sleep – which ends up leading to worse sleep outcomes. A study from the University of Warwick in England shows just how powerful these negative thoughts are.

In the past 15 years, no new topical AD treatments have been approved. Crisaborole, however, could be an efficient, safe, non-steoidal treatment option, according to the results of two recent phase III studies.

Researchers set out to see how prevalent sleep problems are in people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at the 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS 2016) in San Francisco, California.

This most recent trial of the investigational agent E6005 follows on a previous study that evidenced benefit in adult patients.

Whether applied to skin that is presoaked or dry, there is no difference in the effectiveness of topical corticosteroids in treating atopic dermatitis, according to a new controlled comparison study in children.

Pain and sleep problems commonly go hand-in-hand. However, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), daytime sleepiness, and poor sleep quality are all very different things.

For millions of Americans, including as many as one in four children, the painful skin irritation of atopic dermatitis (AD, or eczema), may only be the tip of the iceberg.

Disruption of the circadian rhythm may interact with biological sex to raise or lower the risk of stroke.

Everyone needs an adequate amount of sleep every night, but it should especially be a priority in pregnant women. However, there is a fine line between too much and too little sleep, but either way, both sides of the spectrum have an increase risk in gestational diabetes.

If a young person has sleep problems, there’s an increased risk that they will have chronic pain in the long-term.

Study results show that more than a dozen traits related to sleep, wake, and activity cycles associated with severe bipolar disorder appear to be inherited.

Women who have trouble sleeping have a much greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study found.

Being depressed or tired makes people less alert, but not sleepy, a Canadian study found. That means that sleepiness and poor alertness are not the same, and that doctors should not use the terms interchangeably.

Wrist–worn actigraphy might be an alternative to polysomnography (PSG) in measuring sleep efficiency and number of awakenings in certain patients with schizophrenia, according to a study in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment.

The rising sun and moon may not be the only opposite partners when it comes to sleeping and waking. A research team at Northwestern University recently discovered a pair of opposing ion channels may be turn circadian neurons in the brain on and off on a daily cycle.

Depression and anxiety may color patients' reports of sleep quality, researchers report in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Evidence is mounting that getting enough sleep is a key to preventing Alzheimer's disease.

Excessive daytime sleepiness related to severe obstructive sleep apnea is also linked to depression in men, reported a team of researchers from Australia.

Critically ill patients benefit from sleep, but noise levels in intensive care units may interfere, a study from the Universitgy of Iowa shows.

Not only does poor sleep result in more pain for fibromyalgia patients, but it is also linked to a lower pain threshold.

Poor sleep is connected to a significantly increased risk for major cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, such as obesity, diabetes, and coronary artery disease, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine have found.