“The issue for the field is that the genetic approach to sleep is very underdeveloped,” SLEEP 2006 keynote speaker Allan I. Pack, MBChB, PhD, told Sleep Review on Tuesday. However, because there is no shortage of patients with sleep disorders in the United States, he added that sleep medicine “could catch up very quickly.”
Read MorePresident-elect Michael Silber, MBChB, took the reins of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) from outgoing president Lawrence Epstein, MD, in Salt Lake City, Utah, yesterday.
Read MoreThis week, Utah’s capital became the world center of sleep as the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) hosted the largest gathering of sleep medicine physicians, researchers, technologists, and associated professionals in the world.
Read MoreThe Carpenter Co Sleep Better Survey™ found that 41% of Americans take their pillow with them on vacation, a Medical News Today article reports.
Read MoreLaboratory studies of the effects of ramelteon suggest that the drug’s targeting of the brain’s melatonin receptors rather than its benzodiazepine receptors make its subjective side effects unlike other sedative hypnotics.
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