Sleeping pills offer wake-up call to vegetative patients
Drug could overcome brain shutdown caused by trauma.
Clinical researchers have discovered that they can rouse semi-comatose patients by giving them, bizarrely, a common sleeping drug. If more wide-ranging tests are successful, the drug could become the first effective treatment for ‘persistent vegetative state’, the condition at the centre of the US legal battle over sufferer Terri Schiavo last year.
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So,please, did anyone ask the people if they were conscious of their surroundings and the passage of time when they were in the coma? And can they take another Ambien and get a few more conscious hours?
Posted by: David Harris | May 26, 2006 07:59 AM
Drug could overcome brain shutdown caused by trauma.
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Posted by: warsaw apartments | September 25, 2006 03:12 PM
People who take sleeping pills often hope that sleeping pills will increase their sleep enough to make them more energetic in the day. They may hope that sleeping pills will improve their long-term health. Sleeping pill effects are just the opposite of what people hope.
Because life and death are often our primary concern, I would like to first to discuss the darkest aspect of sleeping pills:
WARNING: Sleeping pills could be hazardous to your health or cause death from cancer, heart disease, or other illnesses.
For over 30 years I have worked to assess the risks of sleeping pills. I have learned that sleeping pills are associated with significantly increased mortality.
Posted by: Poul Cooper - marketing products | December 12, 2006 01:14 PM
Sleeping pills, like any other pill, has different effects and side effects. They can even be paradoxical. But we won't really understand it if we don't know enough about it. Here's a site that talks about the different types of "sleeping pills" and their uses and why they act they way they do.
http://askthesleepexperts.com/
Posted by: insomnia free | January 27, 2007 03:45 AM