June 28, 2006

Maureen’s Medical Moment : The growing trend of insomnia

At a time when sleeping pill sales are at an all time high. Comes a growing body of research suggesting that for some there may be a better option than popping a pill.


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Help For Sleep Problems

A study in JAMA found that cognitive behavioral therapy may work better to treat insomnia in older adults than medications.


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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Appears More Effective Than Sleep Medication for Treating Insomnia

Patients with insomnia who implemented cognitive behavioral therapy interventions such as relaxation techniques had greater improvement in their sleep than patients who received the sleep medication zopiclone, …


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Stanford Researcher Links Hot Flashes To Insomnia

Millions of women experience menopause each year, and many find themselves having to cope with a plethora of unpleasant symptoms.


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June 27, 2006

New sleep medication Ramelteon shows less potential to foster abuse and dependence

As part of the effort to develop effective behavioral and medical sleep therapies, scientists consider the potential for dependence and abuse associated with prescription sleep drugs.


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Therapy Bests Medication for Chronic Insomnia

While popping a sleeping pill may be the solution for an occasional sleepless night, people with chronic insomnia can get more and deeper sleep if they receive cognitive behavioral therapy to treat their sleep …


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Medicine may not be best sleep prescription

File Can’t get to sleep? Join the club. Insomnia zaps the zzzz’s from millions of Americans and it becomes more common as we grow older, says Duke University sleep researcher Jack Edinger.


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Counseling better than drug treatment for insomnia

NEW YORK - Cognitive behavioral therapy , a counseling method that emphasizes the role of thinking and behavior modification, is more effective than zopiclone for the short- and long-term treatment of chronic …


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Behavioral Therapy 1, Sleeping Pills 0

Robert Langreth and Matthew Herper Bad news for the makers of sleeping pills: A new report in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association says that a six-week course of psychological therapy may …


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To what extent can hot flashes in midlife women be considered a cause of chronic insomnia?

Millions of women experience menopause each year, and many find themselves having to cope with a plethora of unpleasant symptoms.


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