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| Extra sleep may help reduce pain Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:45 AM PST  Research suggests extra sleep may play a role in curbing pain. — shutterstock.com pic "If you are already sleeping eight hours a night, you probably don't need more sleep," researcher Dr. Thomas Roth, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, told WebMD. "If you spend six hours in bed a night, spend eight — preferably nine," he says. Roth and his team recruited 18 healthy, pain-free volunteers who were randomly assigned to four nights of either maintaining their regular sleep time or extending their slumber to 10 hours. To test pain sensitivity, subjects were asked to hold their finger against a radiant heat source. The amount of time subjects could do this increased by 25 per cent in those who slept 10 hours after just four days. Previous research suggests this is similar to taking a 60-mg dose twice a day of the painkiller codeine. "We were surprised by the magnitude of the reduction in pain sensitivity, when compared to the reduction produced by taking codeine," Roth said. How does sleep help curb pain? "We think that sleep loss and pain both increase levels of inflammatory markers, but getting more sleep may help decrease this inflammation," Roth told WebMD. The study appears in the December issue of the journal Sleep. — AFP-Relaxnews |
| US lawmakers, car salesmen rank worst for trust Posted: 04 Dec 2012 04:34 AM PST  Only 8 per cent of Americans polled thought highly of car salespeople. — shutterstock.com pic Nurses and pharmacists were considered to have the highest standards, according to the Gallup poll. Only 10 per cent of respondents rated members of Congress very highly or highly for their integrity, while 54 per cent scored them "very low or low." At the bottom of the barrel were the car salespeople — only eight per cent thought very highly of them, while advertising people did not do much better — just 11 per cent of those surveyed rated them very highly. Nurses however were on the top of the list — 85 per cent of people gave them a very high or high mark for honesty and strong ethical values. Pharmacists (75 per cent), doctors and engineers (both 70), police officers (58), college teachers (53), and clergy (52) were the only other occupations to score above 50 per cent when it came to being given a very high or high rating. There was little joy for bankers (28 per cent) and journalists (24), though both did better than business executives (21), state governors (20), lawyers (19), and insurance salesmen (15), when it came to top marks. Some 45 per cent of those surveyed had a very low or low rating of senators, with just 14 per cent viewing their integrity as being very high or high. Gallup noted that members of the US House of Representatives have never done well in the 36 year history of the honesty and ethical standards survey. The highest honesty rating for these lawmakers came in November 2001, two months after the 9/11 attacks, when 25 percent of Americans ranked them highly. Gallup said its November 26-29 poll of 1,015 adults has a plus or minus four percentage point margin or error. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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