Research Articles
Updates about new sleep medicine research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
A new data brief from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that single parents get less sleep and experience more sleep-related problems than adults in other types of families.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is seeking exceptional candidates for the Director, National Center for Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR).
Women with obstructive sleep apnea were 3.54 times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease during a 5-year follow-up period than female patients without OSA, according to a study from Taiwan that is published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
Numerous studies published in 2015 provided new insights that promoted a better understanding of sleep, sleep disorders and circadian rhythms. The following papers published in 2015 received the most pageviews on the websites of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine and the journal SLEEP.
An Italian study in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that mobile phone use by adolescents and Internet use by preadolescents after 9 p.m. were associated with sleep problems.
A study published Dec. 14 in the American Journal of Managed Care analyzed a broad-scale implementation by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of outpatient specialty care e-consults within a patient-centered medical home model.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is inviting applications for a new R35 funding opportunity that is intended to support a research program, rather than a research project, by providing the primary and most likely sole source of NHLBI funding on individual grant awards.
From 2006 to 2014, the number of NIH-funded clinical trials decreased by 24 percent, while the number of industry-funded trials increased by 43 percent, based on data examined according to the first received date.
Consumer sleep technologies – including mobile device apps and wearable devices - have the potential to both improve and impair collective and individual sleep health, according to a review published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
This week the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2016–2020: Turning Discovery Into Health, which outlines how the agency will capitalize on new opportunities for scientific exploration and address new challenges for human health.