Research Articles
Updates about new sleep medicine research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
About 58 percent of middle school students and 73 percent of high school students report getting insufficient sleep on an average school night, according to a new analysis published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the first report to [...]
On Thursday, Feb. 1, the Sleep Research Society (SRS) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) are hosting a free webinar, NIH Clinical Trials Policies. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made changes to its clinical trials policies that affect all human [...]
New evidence-based guidelines in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care provide guidance to administrators of emergency medical services (EMS) on how to mitigate workplace fatigue. “Fatigue is widespread in EMS and is not isolated to one type of EMS operation or category of EMS clinician,” [...]
A new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that a high rate of unsafe infant sleep practices is reported by mothers in the U.S. For the report, “Vital Signs: Trends and Disparities in Infant Safe Sleep Practices — United [...]
In a Yahoo Finance exclusive, a Fitbit data scientist and Fitbit’s lead sleep research scientist discussed findings from their analysis of data from 6 billion nights of its customers’ sleep. In March 2017 Fitbit launched a new Sleep Stages feature that uses accelerometer [...]
Sleep research articles published in the past year in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine captured the attention of the scientific and medical communities, as well as the media and the general public. The following sleep research papers published in 2017 received the [...]
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a funding opportunity announcement, “Sleep disorders and circadian clock disruption in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias of aging” (PAR-18-497). This FOA is aimed at molecular, cellular, genetic, epigenetic, and [...]
A notice of an upcoming funding announcement from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) indicates that it will include as a focus area, “Interventions to Reduce Disparities in Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Insomnia.” Applicants may submit Letters of Intent (LOI) for either awards of [...]
The deadline to submit an abstract for presentation at SLEEP 2018 has been extended to Monday, Dec. 18, at 11:59 p.m. CST. Don’t miss this opportunity to present your research at the premier clinical and scientific meeting in the sleep field. Review the abstract [...]
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) recently released an assessment of the AASM Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnostic Testing for Adult OSA. The assessment is based on the National Academy of Medicine’s (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust, providing [...]