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Enter Singing: Giant Bedbugs, Fancy Boys, Bank Robbers, Potato Farmers New York Times, United States - 3 hours ago Celina Carvajal as a mad scientist and Brian Charles Rooney as a singer in “Bedbugs!!!,” at the New York Musical Theater Festival. Charles Karel and Heather … Kate Shindle to Host NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation Finals on … TheaterMania.com all 2 news articles

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Police officers complain of bedbugs at hotel KOB.com, NM - 4 hours ago Tuesday’s Farmington Daily-Times reports three Santa Fe Police Department employees who recently stayed at the hotel had bug bites all over their bodies. …

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Nearly 60 percent of the nation’s elderly have trouble sleeping, whether it’s a lot of tossing and turning or outright bouts of insomnia. While for most people sleeplessness can be annoying at best or unhealthy at worst, for elderly individuals who have suffered from depression in the past, poor sleep may be the first sign that a new bout of depression is coming on.

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Bed Bug Boom Is a Boost To One Sector New York Sun, United States - 9 hours ago While it is nearly impossible to prevent the spread of bedbugs, some pesticides and disinfectants — such as Sterifab, Bedlam, and Pronto — are advertised as …

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Children – 9 to 10 hours. Toddlers – 12 to 13 hours. Infants – 10 to 18 hours. Source: Marietta Memorial Hospital sleep clinic.

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Perhaps The Chelsea Really Does Let the BedBugs Bite HotelChatter, MA - 7 hours ago My daughter just spent $3000 on exterminating bed bugs after our visit at the Chelsea (I helped with the expense). I didn't have the same problem since I …

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I saw an ad that caught my eye: happywakeup.com, a smart alarm clock that you can put in your cell phone to wake you up in the morning in a more pleasant way. The company website says that by waking up a little BEFORE your scheduled alarm time and at the right stage of sleep or drowsiness, you will feel better. The smart alarm attempts to avoid a jarring and stressful awakening out of deep sleep. It tries to wake you up when you are dozing or half-awake, claiming that this is more natural, will reduce stress, and basically, make you happier in the morning. I can see it. After all, getting up a little before you want to is part of basic sleep hygiene.

First, having woken up a lot of people in my life, including patients, research subjects, my kids, and my self, I can tell you that what stage of sleep you are in before you wake up does make a difference in how you feel and perform for the first several minutes at least. Yesterday my alarm went off just as I was steering a big boat across the ocean while lying on my back worrying about the speed of the propeller. It took me a few seconds to get oriented to my bedroom, but in general, studies show that it is easier to wake up from REM sleep than from nonREM.

I have talked about sleep inertia before, the feeling of sleepiness after just waking up. Sleep inertia can impair performance for up to 30 minutes and the degree of sleep inertia is affected by what stage of sleep you wake up from. Luckily, for most people, as we near the end of our 7 or 8 hours in bed, our sleep is generally lighter and is interspersed with periods of wake and very light sleep. The happywakeup alarm tries to go off during this stage—not during dreaming sleep (REM) or during deep sleep.

How does it do this? Of course that is the company secret, but their website says that the cell phone monitors sound, such as of the sheets moving or snoring. Sound is a reflection of movement, and movement can indeed estimate wake versus sleep. The usual method is called actigraphy, and it appears that the smart alarm approximates this to estimate wake versus sleep. Then, if the person appears to be awake within 20 minutes of their set alarm time, the smart alarm will go off ! This assures that you don’t wake up say, when you are otherwise occupied steering a boat across the ocean.

I do not know if the system actually works to properly estimate wake versus sleep, and I cannot see how it could tell REM from nonREM, but depending on the person, I might guess it could be 70 % accurate. Also, whether or not waking up like this actually lowers stress or makes you happy is another question, but it sounds like a neat idea. I’d be interested to hear from any unbiased people who have tried it. Let me know what you think.

J. Steven Poceta MD is a licensed practitioner of neurology and sleep disorders who has been engaged by Revolution Health. No information in this blog is intended to diagnose or treat any condition. The opinions expressed here are Dr. Poceta’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of Revolution Health.

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Bugs force disabled resident from home Portsmouth News, UK - 6 hours ago A DISABLED resident living in sheltered housing for the elderly has been forced to move out of her home because it is infested with bed bugs. …

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Johnson City's John Sevier Center working to combat bedbug infestation Kingsport Times News, TN - 8 hours ago Management and tenants of the John Sevier Center have been battling bedbugs for more than a year, most recently with a HUD directive to eradicate the …

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Police sweep "Nickelsville" residents from site Westseattleherald.com, WA - 2 hours ago "The homeless are either going to get eaten alive by the bed bugs or freeze to death outside." "The King County 10-Year Homeless Plan isn't working," argued … 'Nickelsville' campers still looking for permanent home KING5.com all 34 news articles

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New York Lags in Regulating Bed Bugs New York Sun, United States - 4 hours ago By EB SOLOMONT, Staff Reporter of the Sun | September 29, 2008 In response to a growing bed bug epidemic, a number of cities across the nation have adopted … Salt Is Next on City's Hit List New York Sun all 2 news articles

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Published: Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:10 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:10 p.m. Michaela Mathis is only 4, but she already knows a five-syllable word: anaphylaxis.

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Hospital calls in pest control after bedbugs found in offices The Register-Guard, OR - 3 hours ago AP PORTLAND — For centuries the evening couplet “Sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite” settled like an itchy benediction on kids headed for dreamland. …

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NJ lawmakers: Make landlords pay for bedbugs Newsday, NY - 7 hours ago Bedbugs are less than a fifth of an inch long, or the diameter of a pencil eraser. The tiny, brownish, flattened insects hide in all kinds of places around …

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The Everly Brothers said it, “dream, dream, dream,” but St. Tammany residents are not doing it.

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