Sleep Won’t Cure the Coronavirus But It Can Help Our Bodies Fight It
Sleep can boost our immune function and help us deal with stress.
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Author: Sree Roy
How to Maintain Healthy Sleep Habits During the Public Health Crisis
Xue Ming, PhD, MD talks about how COVID-19 is bringing new challenges to sleep cycles, how sleep helps the immune system fight inflammation, infection and disease while producing proteins that are needed to recover from illness, and what can be done to get on the right track to a healthy sleep routine.
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Mark W. Mahowald, MD, Parasomnia Pioneer, Dies at 76
Mark W. Mahowald, MD, who dedicated his career to sleep medicine—much of it as sleep center director at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, a part of Hennepin County Medical Center—died of pneumonia on March 18, with his family at his side.
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Is Sleep Medicine “Essential”?
During the coronavirus pandemic, sleep professionals decide what procedures occur now and which are postponed, using general guidance from government agencies and professional associations.
Read MoreNaps Don’t Work for Everyone. Genetic Differences Are Why.
Some adults are genetically predisposed to need more hours of continuous sleep than others, reports The Washington Post.
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