October is SIDS Awareness Month
READ THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS POLICY STATEMENT HERE to learn more about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and how YOU can prevent it [...]
Public Health & Safety
Wellness Wednesday: Society and economy pay the price for Australia’s collective lack of sleep
The price one pays for lack of sleep can be measured in societal and economic costs [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Why is it okay for doctors to work without sleep for 24 hours?
Perhaps the Right to Sleep effort should focus on the high costs that come from mistakes made by sleep-deprived doctors. Those in training are encouraged to work without sleep as a kind of "rite of passage." Research suggests patients pay the price as victims of medical errors or drowsy driving accidents caused by these professionals, who are not superhuman, but just as disabled by sleep deprivation as everyone else. [...]
Sleep News Special Report || Drowsy Driving Awareness Edition: We need to stop falling asleep at the wheel
Falling asleep at the wheel continues to trend as a major and alarming contributor to fatal vehicle accidents. Learn more with this special supplement focused on drowsy driving as a side effect of the fall time change. [...]
Wordless Wednesday || FDA promotes ABCs of sleep, warns against infant sleep positioners
This ABCs of infant sleep video by the FDA clarifies the best way to put baby down for a nap. [...]
Sleep Health Watchdog: Check out these change agents for better teen sleep
Without the work of dedicated activists from the grassroots, the medical research field, and legislators, we might know a lot less about the sleep needs of teenagers and the disservice we do to this population when we ask them to start class before 830am. [...]
News drip: More links revealing the dangerous dilemma of drowsy driving
Drowsy driving accidents seem to be on the upswing but without more regulations, anti-drowsy driving laws, and an equally dangerous uptick in sleep deprivation, how are we ever going to make our roads safe again? [...]
Infographic: Cleanup on Highway 17! Unusual drowsy driving crashes
Thankfully, not all driving drowsy accidents result in fatalities, but there's still plenty to lose. [...]
From the American Sleep Apnea Association: “The fallible Tiger Woods”
It seems that many prescription drug users do not understand (or care about) the dangerous side effects of these medications. Nor are they aware how their use can impair driving. This, in spite of directly spoken warnings from healthcare professionals and multiple warnings found on drug labels and recited by dispensing pharmacists. [...]
Sleep Health Watchdog: Check out these change agents for drowsy driving prevention
Without the work of dedicated activists from the grassroots, the medical research field, and legislators, we might know a lot less about the clear and present danger that is drowsy driving. [...]