Health Articles

How Effective are Condoms?

Condoms are a method of birth control.

Probiotics and IBS

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic gastrointestinal condition that is prevalent in anywhere between 8 and 22 percent of the population.

Guide to Anti-Snoring Devices

There are many different types of anti-snoring devices for different types of snoring.

Snoring Grades

Snoring is the sound that is made by the vibration of breathed-in air passing through narrowed airway passages during sleep, producing nasal or guttural sounds. It may be simple or complicated by obstructive sleep apnea.

Risk Factors for Snoring

Snoring is reported to occur in about eight out of every ten people, if one acknowledges the self-reported incidence. The highest number of habitual snorers is in the age category 50-59 years.

What is Choroideremia?

Choroideremia (CHM) is a rare genetic eye disease that affects the retina, which is the area at the back of the eye that processes all we see into signals that are sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

Surgical Solutions to Snoring

Snoring is a worldwide phenomenon, and there are several surgical and non-surgical techniques employed to treat it. Surgical treatments are usually preferred if snoring is adversely affecting the health and quality of life, or if the snoring is not adequately relieved by other modes of treatment.

Treating snoring

Snoring is a common phenomenon, but some snorers may require medical treatment. The indications for this may include daytime fatigue, lapses into sleep during the day, and impairment of normal activity.

Growing an eye for transplantation: potentials and pitfalls

Scientists have been working hard to bring about a time in the future when we can grow “an eye in a dish” and use it for transplantation to restore the vision of someone who is blind, and they are not as far off as you might think.

Types and Causes of Snoring

Snoring refers to the snorting or rattling noise made by an individual during breathing associated with sleep. It is produced by the vibration of the soft palate and other soft tissues in the mouth, nose or throat.

History of Sleep

Efforts to understand what occurs during sleep and its impact on the health of animals and human beings alike have been documented for thousands of years.

Social Jetlag and Sleep

Social jetlag is the name given to the condition in which sleep patterns vary widely between workdays and weekends or holidays, with sleep deprivation on weekdays being compensated for by a lie-in on weekends.

Depression and Sleep Length

Sleep deprivation is a very common phenomenon in the US, mostly by choice, due to working or study conditions which are not conducive to getting adequate sleep. Most people who do not get enough sleep complain of fatigue and daytime sleepiness.

Artificial Light Exposure and Circadian Rhythm

The body is geared to function according to a number of inbuilt biological clocks which respond to various cues, including light and darkness. These work in coordination under the master clock in the hypothalamus, which reacts to light.

Causes of Sleep-Onset Insomnia

Diabetes and Sleep

Sleep deprivation has become customary in many societies with the spread of modern educational institutions, and the availability of modern communication gadgets. The hours of sleep have decreased by up to two hours in much of the US.

Obesity and Sleep

Ensuring adequate sleep in children is a good way to prevent and treat childhood obesity, according to recent studies. The average sleep duration has declined over the last couple of decades, to about 9.5 hours a night, accompanied by a rise in pediatric obesity.

Circadian Rhythm Length Variations - Early Birds and Night Owls

Circadian rhythms are cyclic biological changes involving the physical, mental, and behavioral functioning of an organism.

Mesentery: a new organ?

Mesentery is a sheet-like structure that encloses the intestine and attaches it to the posterior part of the abdominal wall. First illustrations of the structure in situ indicated its contiguity, and in 1879 Toldt accurately depicted a mesentery that was associated with the ascending and descending colon.

How to Catch up on Lost Sleep

While it is tempting to stay up late on weekdays trying to get everything done, and then sleep in on weekend mornings to ‘catch up’ on sleep, more and more studies are demonstrating that this is simply not possible.