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Nighttime room entries dropped by 44 percent after researchers educated doctors and nurses on the health consequences of in-hospital sleep deprivation.
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Hospitals and hospices are having trouble buying the pain killers in the IV form they need most. It's getting worse.
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Although more than half of people with type 2 diabetes report poor sleep, sleep hygiene is often missing from diabetes self-management education, according to two speakers at the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists annual conference. “When you look on lifestyle, there’s a lot of emphasis on diet, there’s a lot of emphasis on exercise, but there’s not