Sleep difficulty is a prominent concern of cancer patients, yet there has been no large study of the prevalence and nature of sleep disturbance in cancer patients. This cross-sectional survey study examined: (a) the prevalence of reported sleep problems in patients attending six clinics at a regional cancer centre; (b) sleep problem prevalence in relation to cancer treatment; and (c) the nature...

Parents completed a prospective diary of a night's sleep for 87, 3-4 month old infants at home whose body temperatures were continuously recorded. We found that about half of the babies disturbed their parents in the night. Breast fed babies were more likely to wake parents in the middle of the night. The babies who disturbed their parents in the middle of the night were significantly more heav...

ailments suffered by Americans is allergies. The symptoms of allergic rhinitis (red, itchy eyes and nose, sneezing, sinus headache and congestion) can be both seasonal, in the case of “hay fever” or perennial. Regardless of the particular allergen, the discomfort is experienced by nearly 20% of Americans (1). While rarely life-threatening, allergic rhinitis leads to periods of general misery, s...

OBJECTIVE Infant colic (IC) is defined as recurrent and prolonged crying without an obvious cause or evidence of failure to thrive or illness. It is a common problem with a prevalence of 5%-25%. The unknown aetiology results in a wide variety in interventions and use of heterogeneous outcome measures across therapeutic trials. Our aim was to develop a core outcome set (COS) for IC to facilitate...

SLEEP BRUXISM IS DEFINED AS A STEREOTYPED MOVEMENT DISORDER CHARACTERIZED BY TOOTH GRINDING DURING SLEEP AND HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE PARASOMNIA SECTION ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF SLEEP DISORDERS.1 Bruxism has also been considered to be a parafunction2 because it afflicts approximately 10% of the general population, causing abnormal tooth wear, fracture, and hypersensitivity...

Abstract Introduction Sleep is critical for health and wellbeing. Left untreated, sleep disorders negatively impact daily functioning quality of life. The gold-standard monitoring diagnosis in-lab polysomnography (PSG). Though PSG provides a comprehensive overview sleep, it uncomfortable due to the amount sensors, which prohibit movement disturb sleep. A wireless patch-based system, Onera Test ...