| TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-pyschotic called Seroquel.
LONDON (AP) -- The European Medicines Agency is investigating whether there is a link between narcolepsy and a swine flu vaccine.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Giving teens 30 extra minutes to start their school day leads to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness, and even healthier breakfasts, a small study found.
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- Sit by the window in school? Lack of the right light each morning to reset the body's natural sleep clock might play a role in teenagers' out-of-whack sleep, a small but provocative school experiment suggests.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Controversy in the death of a 25-year-old man has pitted a family active in the metro Atlanta church community against a major medical facility over a procedure generally regarded to pose little threat.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sleeping in on Saturday after a few weeks of too little shuteye may feel refreshing, but it can give a false sense of security.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (The New York Times News Service) -- Sure, Ambien helps you sleep. But sometimes waking up can be a tough pill to swallow.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Using computer algorithms and infrared imaging, Houston researchers have created a test for sleep apnea that detects the common but potentially serious disorder without a tangle of sensors attached to the patient's body during sleep.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
(Associated Press) -- What to do if menopause makes you miserable?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Safety investigators have sent government agencies a wake-up call about sleep apnea, a disorder that's showing up in a wide range of transportation accidents.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have discovered a gene that helps a mother and daughter stay alert on about six hours sleep a night, two hours less than the rest of their family needs.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Sleepless people sometimes use the Internet to get through the night. Now a small study shows promising results for insomniacs with nine weeks of Internet-based therapy.
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