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Lack of sleep may lead to depression NEW YORK (UPI) -- Adolescents who don't get enough sleep are more likely to suffer from depression and have suicidal thoughts, researchers in New York said. Adolescents who reported sleeping five hours or less per night were 71 percent more likely to suffer depression and 48 percent more likely to think about suicide than adolescents who reported getting eight hours of nightly sleep, said James Gangwisch, an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Gangwisch and his team reached their conclusions by studying data collected from 15,659 adolescents and their parents who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in 1994 to 1996. Adolescents who reported getting enough sleep were more likely to have parents who set bedtimes of 10 p.m. or earlier, Gangwisch wrote in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep. "Adequate quality sleep could therefore be a preventative measure against depression and a treatment for depression," he said. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Morning-after pill popular in India NEW DELHI (UPI) -- Young women in India increasingly use emergency contraceptives rather than condoms, gynecologists said. The use of morning-after pills rather than condoms increases the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, the health experts told The Washington Post in a story published Saturday. Advertisements for emergency contraceptives are widely advertised in India, where growing numbers of young adults are moving to large cities for jobs and leaving behind their families' traditional values, the Post reported. "In India, it's almost like girls are gulping I-pills," gynecologist Yash Bala said of the emergency contraceptive sold by Cipla, which estimates nearly 200,000 of the pills are sold each month in India at a cost of under $2 each. The emergency contraceptives reduce the number of pregnancies by preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. An estimated 7 million abortions are performed each year in India with more than 20,000 women dying from botched procedures, the Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India said. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Pilates creates a new you for the new year NEW YORK (UPI) -- Many people begin the New Year with a new exercise program, but a New York City pilates instructor says her regimen is like learning a physical language. Brooke Siler, author of "Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge," creator of the DVD "Pilates Weight Loss for Beginners" and owner of the nyc Pilates studio, says pilates is like learning a language -- grammar, syntax, vocabulary -- and once your body has absorbed this information -- good sound body movement -- the whole is more than the sum of its parts. "Once you're gotten it down it works from the inside out," Silar told United Press International. "You learn to move less conscientiously and it effects how you move that it only takes about a one hour workout once a week -- it doesn't take much to maintain." Joseph Pilates, a gymnast, designed a system of exercises to improve the rehabilitation program for returning World War I veterans via a few precise movements emphasizing control and form by strengthening, stretching and stabilizing key muscles. "My teacher, Romana Kryzanowska, the oldest living protege of Joseph Pilates, just embodied his teaching to understand the work -- breathing, centering, concentration, control and precision -- and not just teach the exercises," Siler said. Pilates created "The Pilates Principles" to condition the entire body: proper alignment, centering, concentration, control, precision, breathing and flowing movement. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Drugs during pregnancy being studied WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A new public/private research program will study the effects of prescription medications used during pregnancy, U.S. researchers say. The researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics, Kaiser Permanente's multiple research centers and Vanderbilt University say very few clinical trials test the safety of medications in pregnancy although one study finds two-thirds of women delivering a baby have taken at least one prescription medication during pregnancy. The Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program will address that research gap, they say. "This program is a great example of FDA and the private sector working together to improve the health of pregnant women and their children," Dr. Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration, said in a statement. "These data will guide regulatory policy and influence medical practice." To overcome the challenges presented by the lack of clinical trial data about the use of medications during pregnancy, the research program will link healthcare information for mothers and their babies from 11 participating research sites -- a total of about 1 million births during the past seven years since 2001. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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