Workplace Fatigue meeting confirms it: we’re tired at work, and it’s costing us everything
Curator’s note: SHC was in attendance at this event. To follow along with its major presentations, SHC live-tweeted them; please visit [...]
public health
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 [...]
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. [...]
“The right to sleep”: The biggest civil & human rights problem you’ve never heard of
Is the opportunity to get sleep at night a human right? A civil right? [...]
Sleep News Weekly || Sept 15, 2017 || Marijuana and sleep, nap pods at airports, no dogs in bed, more
SHC has vetted the week's sleep news so you don't have to! [...]
Sleep News Weekly || Sept 8, 2017 || Beeswax for insomnia, Mattress King in Houston, the right to sleep, more
SHC has vetted the week's sleep news so you don't have to! TGIF, but... Please keep positive thoughts for hurricane victims from our Caribbean neighbors as well as Texas, Louisiana and Florida this weekend. [...]
Your 3pm Decaf Drip for August 28, 2017
We’ve vetted last week’s sleep news so you don’t have to. Happy Monday!
[...]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. [...]
Eclipse moves Monday Morning Coffee to Tea Time Tuesday for August 22, 2017
SHC has vetted the week's sleep news so you don't have to! Happy post-eclipse Tuesday! [...]