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For something that everyone can do with no special skills or training, falling asleep sure can be hard at times. On this week's Health Show, we’ll try to uncover some reasons why. We’ll hear about sleep apnea...and report on a study detailing sleep problems for women. Then we switch gears and have a chat with the father of DNA fingerprinting.
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OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA: The Good, The Bad and the Really Noisy!
Many Americans enjoy a full, restful sleep each night, and wake up the next morning feeling like a million bucks. Then there are others who would gladly give a million bucks for a few good hours of sleep. As Les Lovoy reports, science is gaining ground on a main cause of sleep deprivation, obstructive sleep apnea. It’s also learning more about the consequences of not treating the condition.
WOMEN’S SLEEP STUDY
So who are these drowsy people walking among us? For the most part, they’re women. The 2007 Sleep in America Poll, sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation, queried more than 1,000 adult women nationwide across all ages and races and found that the majority of American women are continually sleep deprived. The Health Show’s Jim Horne spoke with Kathryn Lee, PhD, a professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing in the University of California at San Francisco School of Nursing, who led the study.
THE FATHER OF DNA FINGERPRINTING
The list of people who’s work changed the world is pretty short, populated with names like Edison and Bell. Well years from now, the name Sir Alec Jeffreys my be just as familiar. Professor Jefferys is the inventor of DNA Fingerprinting. Last year, he was awarded the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in recognition of the discovery of the revolutionary technique. That’s where Radio Netherlands’ Laura Dernford caught up with him.
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