Music, massage, naps key to sound sleep

Stressing the need to sleep at a moderate duration, the study urged the Chinese people to avoid excessive use of network devices and turn on some soothing music, massage, and the NPA for a better sleep.

Chinese people are sleeping on average for eight hours and 50 minutes each day, but nearly half feel led, when I woke up, found a study prepared for observation during sleep of the Chinese people and released Tuesday.Diazepam Sleeping Tablets

The report is based on research conducted in November and December through occasional visits home in 20 cities, 20 towns and 20 villages.

It was found about 55 per cent of respondents admitted to their work pressures that affect their sleep, making them resort to various methods to improve their quality of sleep.

Watching the modern media or communication method of influence over the sleep study showed 67.1 percent of the people directly to mobile phones or computers before bedtime, and 43.2 percent of those going to bed after midnight to do so because online Games and messaging.

The study noticed a trend in which people in the south and west of China, as a rule, it is better to sleep than those in the north and east. It was established bachelors sleep better than married, said Qin Xiaoming, deputy head of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, which sponsored the report.

It was also found that men sleep better than women, and people in rural areas better quality of sleep than their urban counterparts, according to the survey.

Sarah Harding was addicted to sleeping pills

Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding says she was addicted to powerful sleeping pills for four years.

30-year-old singer said she had to "hell and back" with her ​​alcoholism and dependence on prescription drug Zopiclone, which she started taking in 2006 after finding it difficult to fall asleep. It took her three weeks of intensive rehab to help get rid of this habit.

"I'm just glad I survived. My drinking was out of control and I was addicted to sleeping pills (zopiclone). It was a terrible combination", ContactMusic. COM quoted Harding as saying.

Stroke Patients at Increased Risk of Suffering Chronic Pain

In a breakthrough revelation, it was found that patients who have suffered a stroke are at increased risk of suffering from chronic pain. The study, said to be one of its kind, was published in the American Stroke Association Heart Journal.Ativan Sleeping Tablets

Lead researcher Martin J. O'Donnell of the National University of Ireland, Galway, said that the study was conducted on more than 15,000 survivors of stroke.

After evaluation of their research, researchers have reached to the conclusion that more than 10% of stroke survivors developed chronic pain. O'Donnell said the investigation led them to reach the conclusion that chronic pain syndromes are common, even when the person is suffering from shock at different levels of complexity.

It was found that the study participants were of researchers for more than two years. She noted, however, that all of these patients had varying degrees of severity of stroke. Some of the many types of chronic pain researchers have discovered neuropathic pain, central pain and stroke shoulder.

"Our results show that the new chronic pain syndromes are important long-term complication of ischemic stroke, even in a population of patients with mild or moderate in severity, ischemic stroke," the study said the scientists.

Pacemakers for depression patients

German scientists have implanted a pacemaker in the brain of patients suffering from depression, with excellent results.

Researchers from the University of Bonn Hospital pacemaker implanted electrodes in the medial forebrain bundle in the brains of patients suffering from depression. In six of the seven patients, symptoms improved as quickly and significantly.Ambien Sleeping Tablets

Method of deep brain stimulation has been tested on various structures of the brain, but clearly less effect.

The results of this new study is published in the International Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

"Effects and speed of response has not been achieved in any other way," says Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Schläpfer of Bonn University Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

Amy Winehouse’s ex boyfriend charged for raping sleeping friend

Amy Winehouse's boyfriend Reg Travis twice raped a girl friend while she slept, a court heard.

35-year-old director has attacked a woman after she got so drunk that she could not stand, Sky News reported.

Film director, who was a friend of Winehouse when she died at her home in Camden, north London, in July last year, is facing two counts of rape in the Southwark Crown Court.Alprazolam Sleeping Tablets

Traviss, and a woman, a friend, drank three bars in London on December 30 last year before going to his home on Marylebone High Street. There, she claims she twice fell asleep, to wake up with him raping her.

Kate Lumsdon, prosecuting, said the complainant Traviss remember asking her if she wants to stay with him, and she suggested that she said so.

"His asking this question, it was the last thing she remembers that night, not yet awake in my bed because of severe pain. She realized that he got into it," she said.

"She asked what he was doing and told him to stop. He stopped. She was very shocked.

"He offered her a drink. She accepted and remembers it was more alcohol, the wine," she said.

The prosecutor said that the pair had a conversation in which Traviss asked her if she just wanted to be friends with him.

"She said,` Yes. ' They chatted for about half an hour, and she relaxed again.

"She could not handle what had happened, and hardly believe it. He behaved as if nothing had happened at all," said Lumsdon.

Lumsdon said the complainant felt very weak and was suffering from a condition of the blood sugar level.

She said that Travis was asked if she wanted to go back to sleep, which she did, but woke up to find him raping her again.

"I had this vague understanding of what is happening, and I could understand if this happened or a bad dream, and I just lost consciousness," the complainant told the court.

"I can not understand how someone so nice and a gentleman would do something like that," she said.