Health
World Sleep Day
Published in Health on 15 March 2012 by Vivienne Pearson
Friday 16th March is World Sleep Day! A few ideas about how you can celebrate the day: Take a moment to consider how good your sleep has been recently. Learn some simple tips to improve your sleep. Find out more about sleep research happening within IBAS (courtesy of the Sleep Health Foundation). Consider participating in sleep research - projects at IBAS look for people who are healthy and generally sleep well to participate as well as those with sleep difficulties. If you are concerned about your sleep, make an appointment with your GP or sleep specialist. Prioritise sleep this weekend and see what a difference it makes to how you feel during the day.
Sleep health is in the news
Published in Health on 22 July 2011 by Vivienne Pearson
Sleep health has been in the news over the past week. The Age reported (on 16th July) that Australia's new preventative health adviser, Christine Bennett, has nominated sleep as a national health priority. ABC TV's Catalyst program (on 21st July) dedicated an entire program to Sleep. IBAS is dedicated to furthering research into sleep and sleep disorders. For details of current projects in this important area, see our Sleep Research page. If you are interested in finding out more about participating in sleep research at IBAS, see our How You Can Help page.