“Exploding Head Syndrome”—Real But Overlooked Sleep Disorder
It sounds like a phrase from the Urban Dictionary, but a Washington State University (WSU)...
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Author: Sree Roy
Health Care Spending Surges in First Quarter
Healthcare expenditures jumped at a 9.9% annual rate last quarter, reports USA Today. Health care spending rose at the fastest pace since 1980 in the first quarter as the new health insurance law prompted many more Americans to...
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Dr. Winston Campbell Makes History in Sleep Medicine
The Bahamas Weekly reports on the Caribbean’s first board-certified sleep medicine...
Read MoreContagious Yawning May Not Be Linked to Empathy
While previous studies have suggested a connection between contagious yawning and empathy, research from the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation finds that contagious yawning may decrease with age and is not strongly related...
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Yawning Cools the Brain
A common belief is that yawning helps to increase the oxygen supply. However, previous research...
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