Research Articles
Updates about new sleep medicine research publications, funding opportunities, and NIH news
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is inviting comment on the proposed development of a training program for law enforcement to reduce risks associated with shift work and long work hours. The CDC will develop and pilot test a new, online, interactive [...]
Sleep research pioneer Michel Jouvet died on the night of Oct. 2 to 3 at the age of 91 years, according to obituaries published in La Croix and Ouest-France. In the late 1950s, Jouvet’s neurological research on cats led to an unexpected discovery. [...]
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden announced today that it has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian [...]
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is inviting patients who have a sleep disorder to serve on its Merit Review panel, which reviews research applications for PCORI funding. PCORI is an independent nonprofit that funds research to give people the information they need in [...]
Young investigators in clinical and translational sleep medicine research can now apply for the 10th annual AASM Young Investigators Research Forum, which will be held April 18-20, 2018, in Bethesda, Maryland. Successful applicants will be selected based on past research productivity and future promise. [...]
The CDC recently released its 2016 state- and territory-specific data on adult obesity prevalence, which show that estimates across states vary and range from 22.3% in Colorado to 37.7% in West Virginia.
A new CDC analysis of data from U.S. non-pregnant women between 40 and 59 years of age shows that perimenopausal women were most likely to sleep less than 7 hours on average in a 24-hour period, compared with premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed extension of the “Leave Supplement to the American Time Use Survey.”
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites R01 revision applications from investigators and institutions with active NIH-supported research project awards to support an expansion of the scope of approved and funded projects to incorporate recent advances in mobile and wireless tools to validate these tools for measurement and intervention delivery (PA-16-043).
The development of a convenient blood test for obstructive sleep apnea is being explored by researchers funded by the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), according to the NHLBI.