Sleep deprivation has a serious impact on physical and mental health. Children with neurodevelopmental disorders are frequently affected by chronic insomnia, defined as difficulty in either initiating sleep, maintaining sleep continuity or poor sleep quality which can lead to long-term detrimental effects on behaviour, learning and development.Interventions to address chronic insomnia in children include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2013 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health established fourteen Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) to advance scientific knowledge relevant to conducting evidence-based tobacco regulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe hypothesized that adding home mechanical therapy to traditional physical therapy by a physical therapist would significantly reduce the need for surgical management of loss of knee flexion after surgery or injury. From 1990 to 1999, we followed up on 34 patients who added home mechanical therapy after failure of physical therapy alone. Thirty-one (91.
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