 | Help Prevent Highway Hazard: Get Enough Sleep Before Getting Behind the Wheel
This age group is also more likely to be sleep-deprived due to combining busy schedules as students and workers along with active social lives |
 | Worried parents ’put childre’s health at risk’
The alarming survey by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) found a fifth of mothers do not always place their offspring to sleep on their backs, which increases the danger of cot death nine times over. This is double the number six years ago. |
 | Students support later start times for classes
The proposal follows a national poll that recently found that teenagers were not getting enough sleep. Experts in the study by the National Sleep Foundation say teens have a different sleep pattern from adults. |
 | Say Ahhh: Tonsil surgery helping kids sleep better
After he had two cases of strep throat in a few weeks, doctors recommended a sleep study: hooking Nicholas up to monitors overnight to make sure he was breathing properly and getting enough rest. Sure enough, Nicholas was suffering from sleep apnea, which stopped his breathing four times an hour. |
 | Tired kids at risk of obesity
CHILDREN who sleep for fewer than six hours could be at greater risk of becoming obese. |
 | Sleep deprived children have health problems
If your child has frequent health and/or emotional problems, consider that a lack of sleep may be all or at least part of the problem. |
 | Healthy Living: Kids Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep
(KUTV) Slipping grades... bad moods... headaches...they’re all signs that could point to inadequate sleep. In our Healthy Living report, why poor sleep could have a troubling effect on your child’s health and safety. |
 | Sleep should win over studies
Sleep has somehow become a luxury as students use the late hours of the night to finish schoolwork that did not get done ... |
 | Adolescents need more sleep
But lack of adequate sleep could affect teens’mental state and behaviour. ... Adolescents are one of the most sleep-deprived groups in our society. |
 | Schools waking up to teens sleep needs
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA --
... A recent study by the National Sleep Foundation found that only 20 percent of teens get the nine hours of sleep recommended on school nights and nearly half ... |