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Association Between Daytime Sleepiness and Unhealthy Life Habits in Adolescents
Once-Daily Lemborexant Reduces Fatigue in Patients With Insomnia Disorder
Bariatric Surgery May Decrease Long-Term OSA Severity in Some Patients With Obesity
Weight Gain Associated With Later Circadian Phase of Peak Caloric Intake in Adolescents
Pitolisant Reduces Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Cataplexy in Patients With Narcolepsy
Common Treatment Emergent Adverse Effects of Solriamfetol in Patients With OSA and Narcolepsy
Brivaracetam May Be an Effective Adjunctive Therapy in Drug-Resistant Focal, Generalized Epilepsy
Oral Health Symptoms in Seniors Associated With Cognitive Decline
Recommendations Updated for Management of Pediatric ADHD
Deep Learning Models Classify Disease From Medical Imaging
Magnitude of Therapeutic Effects Crucial in FDA Approval of Non-RCT Treatments
Some Nutritional Supplements May Aid Mental Health Conditions
Relative Cerebral Blood Flow Can Assist in Triage of Stroke Patients to Reperfusion Therapies
Gestational Exposure to Paracetamol Increases Risk for Childhood Attention Problems and Hyperactivity
Vamorolone Shows Dose Related Improvement in Young Patients With Duchene Muscular Dystrophy
Older Patients Can Receive Concomitant Recombinant Zoster Vaccine and Tdap Vaccine
Meeting Coverage
World Sleep Congress Highlights
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Weight Gain Associated With Later Circadian Phase of Peak Caloric Intake in Adolescents
Meal consumption in the evening is greater in obese adolescents compared with overweight or normal weight subjects, with later circadian phase of peak intake and lower amplitude. -
Bariatric Surgery May Decrease Long-Term OSA Severity in Some Patients With Obesity
Researchers discovered that bariatric surgery led to a significant decrease in BMI, waist circumference, neck circumference, and AHI compared with in the optimized clinical treatment group. -
Pitolisant Reduces Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Cataplexy in Patients With Narcolepsy
Treatment with pitolisant, a potent and highly selective H3-receptor antagonist/inverse agonist, reduces excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy in patients with narcolepsy. -
Association Between Daytime Sleepiness and Unhealthy Life Habits in Adolescents
Late chronotype and daytime sleepiness are associated with unhealthy life habits, including consumption of alcohol and caffeinated beverages and smoking high school students. -
Once-Daily Lemborexant Reduces Fatigue in Patients With Insomnia Disorder
Researchers find once-daily treatment with lemborexant is associated with a noticeable reduction in subject-reported fatigue over 6 month period in patients with insomnia disorder.
Latest Features
Is There a Link Between Drugs for Parkinson Disease and Pathologic Gambling?
Pathological gambling was recently identified as a complication of Parkinson disease and its pharmacological treatment, especially high-dose dopaminergic agonists.
Reviewing Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Migraine, Cluster Headache
Emerging findings suggest that cervical noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation using the gammaCore device may represent an option with efficacy comparable to that of surgically implanted cervical vagus nerve stimulation, with a lower risk for side effects.
Inhaled Therapies in Migraine and Patient Satisfaction
Researchers suggest that patient dissatisfaction because of adverse effects affects quitting seeking treatment for migraines, among other factors.
Should Aging Physicians Be Required to Undergo Cognitive Testing? Three Experts Weigh In
The issue of aging physicians poses serious challenges to the medical profession, with concerns that judgment or skills might decline with age.
Opinion
New Urgency for Treating Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy
Hereditary transthyretin-related amyloidosis (hATTR) with polyneuropathy is a rare, progressive and fatal disease that has been challenging for neurologists to diagnose and manage, until now. Advances in genetic testing have yielded the development of a new generation of more efficient screenings that make early, accurate, and rapid diagnosis more accessible.
