It’s generally recommended to only take sleeping pills on a short-term basis, but insomnia treatment is extremely individualized, so your healthcare professional will help create a specific ...

Patients and Methods: In this open-label study, 30 elderly outpatients with insomnia were randomised to receive 2 weeks of treatment with lormetazepam 0.5mg + SHT or SHT alone, followed by a 1 ...

A total of 84 subjects aged ≥65 years met DSM-IV criteria for insomnia and were screened ... in the lormetazepam + SHT group after 2 weeks of treatment (mean rank 2.87; Friedmann test = 27. ...

Drugs won't cure your insomnia, but they can help you fall asleep, stay asleep, or both. If your doctor prescribes a medication, it likely will be just one part of your treatment plan. Keep in ...

Instead of reaching for a pill, more people should switch to the recommended "first line" treatment for insomnia—the non-drug ...

Objectives Medical cannabis (MC) is increasingly being used for treatment of chronic pain symptoms. Among patients there is also a growing preference for the use of MC to manage sleep problems. The ...

Conclusion: Disease activity was a major contributor to poor sleep quality in elderly patients with RA. Functional status however wasn’t associated with insomnia. Physicians should include sleep in ...