Let's Talk Sleep!

Support Our Troops

I am so happy to be part of this project where I’ll also be on hand to visit with you in-person. Sleepmate Technologies invites you to record a message for our military. Come visit me at the 7th Annual Focus Conference on Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine with Sleepmate at its booth #513 during these hours to record your message to all our troops overseas:

April 20th from 10:00-12:00 and 4:30-6:30

The conference will be held April 19 - 21, 2007 at the Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville Tennessee.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Lecture at Focus Conference

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the 7th Annual Focus Conference on Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine April 19 - 21, 2007 at the Opryland Hotel & Convention Center, Nashville Tennessee.
Kennedy’s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn more than 130 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe.
Kennedy is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply, but his reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. The list includes winning numerous settlements for Riverkeeper, prosecuting governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline, and suing treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act.Mr. Kennedy acts as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for Riverkeeper. He also serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and as President of the Waterkeeper Alliance. At Pace University School of Law, he is a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic in White Plains, New York. Earlier in his career Mr. Kennedy served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. often referred to as RFK Jr. is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and the late Robert F. Kennedy.

Sleeping Alone

We’ve all experienced this as sleep professionals at some point. Occasionally patients that come to the sleep laboratory complain that they have difficulty sleeping away from their spouses or bed partners. A survey in the New Scientist magazine shows men suffer disturbed sleep patterns when they share a bed - while women sleep more deeply. According to the survey, carried out by the University of Vienna, men wake feeling stressed and unrefreshed after a night of broken sleep, whereas women say they sleep best when they share a bed.

New Research:
Mild brain injuries linked to insomnia

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Experiencing a mild traumatic brain injury may increase the risk of developing a sleep disorder, and a good portion of these appear to be based on disturbances in the body's normal circadian rhythm, according to the results of a new study.
"As many as 40 to 65 percent of patients with minor traumatic brain injury complain of insomnia," Dr. L. Ayalon, of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues write in the medical journal Neurology.

Lilly Announces Completion of Hypnion Acquisition

INDIANAPOLIS, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Hypnion, Inc., a privately held neuroscience drug discovery company focused on sleep disorder research. The deal, valued at a total purchase price of $315 million, bolsters Lilly's pipeline with several new early-stage drug candidates and HY10275, an insomnia molecule currently in Phase II of development. HY10275 is a dual-acting H1/5HT2A compound that is targeted at both sleep onset and sleep maintenance, thereby potentially helping people fall asleep and stay asleep.