Short sleep duration may contribute to the development or worsening of hyperactivity and inattention during early childhood, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS).

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) used the events or incidents of health care usage reported by individual people with Medicare from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). Each person included in the MCBS self-reported their health status, and health care utilization. We also matched the reported use of health care to the individual claims history to make sure we included Medicare covered services as well as services not covered by Medicare. CMS combined 2005 and 2006 MCBS data to create statistically valid and reliable cost estimates. Data from both years was combined to create a nationally representative cohort of people with Medicare.

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As doctors increasingly prescribe meditation to patients for stress-related disorders, scientists are gaining a better understanding of how different techniques from Buddhist, Chinese, and Vedic traditions produce different results…

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates peak in women later than they do in men. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry found that men are most vulnerable to PTSD between the ages of 41 and 45 years, while women are most vulnerable at 51 to 55…

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