Sentences with phrase «sleep drugs»

No new prescription sleep drugs hit the market in 2008, but research in several fields is under way.

-LSB-...] drugs, the same precautions and risks accompany allergy medication as sleeping drugs.

She had attended sleep clinics, taken sleeping drugs and many other medicines over time.

While there are plenty of sleep drugs available to treat everything from insomnia to restless legs syndrome, they haven't stopped the pharmaceutical industry from searching for newer, more effective, and more profitable medications.

Psychologist Sara Mednick is researching sleep mechanisms and the effect of sleep drugs on memory.

Besides Xyrem, Jazz has a handful of sleep drugs in late - stage development, including one that has been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for approval to treat narcolepsy and obstructed sleep apnea.

Most concerning: The way people misuse sleep drugs can be dangerous, our survey found.

The toxicology report also showed the presence of the powerful painkiller hydromorphone; anxiety drug alprazolam (also known as Xanax); sleep drug zolpidem (also known as Ambien) and THC, which is a chemical component of marijuana.

In January 2013 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cut the recommended dose of the nation's most popular sleep drug, Ambien, in half for women but not for men.

Pharmaceutical sleep drugs often have more adverse effects than benefits.

Melatonin, over-the-counter medications containing diphenhydramine, and prescription - strength sleep drugs (such as Ambien or Lunesta) can counter the symptoms of paradoxical insomnia.

A number of trials have found that C.B.T. outperforms the best - known sleep drugs.

The most recent Beers Criteria established by the American Geriatrics Society, which guides the use of medications among older people, gives a strong warning against use of prescription sleep drugs, which are sold under such names as Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata.

He applied to a temporary staffing firm, indicating his interest in medical writing, and the firm immediately put him in touch with Wyeth (now part of Pfizer), which was developing a new type of sleep drug.

Sleep drugs might be improving their memories for things they don't want to remember.»

The findings may offer insight into human sleep disorders and open up new strategies to promote long - lasting sleep for those with chronic insomnia who don't respond to available sleep drugs, they say.

The sleep drugs available today help us fall asleep, but they don't enhance sleep quality.

Cho's current project, funded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation, is testing if the sleeping drug also corrects behavioral and cognitive impairments in these HD mice as it did the atypical brain activity and sleep disturbances.

Meditating before bedtime has been shown to be one of the most effective remedies for breaking the pattern of sleeplessness and offers a very real alternative to sleeping drugs.

What you should know: These OTC drugs may not be as helpful as better - studied prescription sleep drugs.

The authors of this study concluded that these sleeping drugs «may have been associated with 320,000 to 507,000 excess deaths in the USA alone.»

Sleeping drugs are used to sedate characters.

Then he gives her a quick dose of some sleeping drug.

Under the influence of her acting coach Paula Strasberg, increasingly dependent on sleeping drugs and reluctant to stick to Miller's text, she almost caused the movie to be abandoned.