Research Articles
Updates about new sleep medicine research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
Visit the American Sleep Medicine Foundation website to read about how the ASMF is making a difference through research, education and humanitarian aid. The new “Success Stories” highlight individuals and organizations that have received an ASMF grant or award.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an updated Final Rule on conflict of interest, providing a framework for identifying, managing, and ultimately avoiding investigators’ financial conflicts of interest. Major changes to the regulations include the definition of significant financial interest (SFI), the extent of investigator disclosure, the information reported to the Public Health Service (PHS) awarding component, the information made accessible to the public, and investigator training.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) hosted the Data Coordinating Centers’ Best Practices Working Group May 24-25, 2011. A Data Coordinating Centers’ Best Practices executive summary is available on the NHLBI website.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) issued a funding opportunity announcement (RFA-HL-12-029) for a Mentored Career Award for Faculty at Institutions that Promote Diversity, and an FOA (PAR-11-307) for a Resource Access Award (X01) for the Discovery of Genetic Basis of Mendelian or Monogenic Heart, Lung, and Blood Disorders.
The August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is now available online, and AASM members have access to the full text of each article when you log in on the website. You also can earn continuing medical education (CME) credits online by reading designated articles and taking the online CME exams within one year of the date of publication.
Older women with sleep-disordered breathing had an increased risk of developing cognitive impairment, according to “Sleep-disordered breathing, hypoxia, and risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in older women,” which appears in the Aug. 10 issue of JAMA.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) convened a Working Group (WG) of invited external experts in heart, lung and blood research and clinical research oversight, bioethics, health economics, regulatory matters and information technology for a meeting June 28-29, 2011. An IRB review process executive summary is available on the NHLBI website.
James P. Kiley, PhD, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Division of Lung Diseases and former director (1995 - 2000) of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR), focused on future opportunities and challenges in “Advancing respiratory research,” an article published in the August 2011 issue of CHEST. Kiley notes that sleep and circadian biology is one of the potential frontiers to advance progress in respiratory biology in health and disease.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund supports exceptionally innovative programs that are inherently high-risk but have the potential for high-payoff by catalyzing research across all of NIH and in the biomedical research community. New ideas for Common Fund programs are identified annually by internal and external scientists and stakeholders, and NIH is asking for your input on these ideas to help them shape new programs for 2013. The feedback period is open until Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011.
Difficulty maintaining sleep is the most common insomnia symptom, according to a study in the Aug. 1 issue of SLEEP. The study involved an analysis of data from 6,791 adults who participated in the America Insomnia Survey (AIS), a cross-sectional telephone survey.