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  • Surgery offers mixed benefits for kids' sleep apnea

    22nd May 13

    A new study has confirmed that removing the tonsils and adenoids of children with obstructive sleep apnea can reduce sleepiness and improve the quality of life, but putting off the surgery might not hurt either.

    The findings, released May 21 at an American Thoracic Society International Conference in Philadelphia, and appearing online in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that after seven months, surgery improved many gauges of everyday living.

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  • Insufficient sleep boosts crash risk for young people

    22nd May 13

    Insufficient sleep puts young drivers at greater risk of a car crash, a large study by Australian researchers has found.

    The new findings, published in the journal JAMA Paediatrics, show that sleeping less on weekends and sleeping six hours or less per night over a sustained period are both factors that increase the chance of run-off road crashes.

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  • Ensure children sleep: ban mobiles, say teachers

    13th May 13

    Teachers are warning parents to ensure their children get enough sleep to do well at school, as experts fear late-night use of mobiles and computers are interfering with results.

    Following a study suggesting Australian year 4 students were the fifth most sleep-deprived of the 50 countries examined, the Australian Education Union is calling on parents to be more vigilant in ensuring kids do not miss out on much-needed rest.

     

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