Article: Your Life: CHILDREN: IS YOUR CHILD REALLY ASLEEP?(Features)

Article: Sleep Deprivation Impairing Teachers in the Classroom
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 22, 2008 ;     422 words ... ... Sleepy teachers are at a higher risk of providing insufficient supervision and inferior classroom instruction," said Denise Amschler, a physiology and health science professor at Ball State who worked on the study. "They also report more mood swings ...

Article: Ball State U. doctors suggest more sleep for students
University Wire;  April 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... mental and physical health, particularly in the short term. "When you're asleep, you are not totally inert," Dr. Denise Amschler, a professor of health education, said. "You need sleep for your brain more than anything because your brain uses more ...

Article: Educators should lead charge to cut diabetes incidence.
Diabetes Week;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... NewsRx.net) -- Children who spend more time ... exercise habits of young children to alleviate a national health problem," said Denise Amschler, physiology and health ... must begin identifying children at risk in order to ... overall well-being of a child, we may be able to ...

Article: Ball State U. experts offer tips for avoiding flu
University Wire;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... would be to get the flu shot," said Denise Amschler, professor in the department of physiology ... The flu mist has now been approved for children, ages two to four, she said. Last ... can be life-threatening for young children, the elderly and people with other ...

Article: College students may not consume enough calcium
University Wire;  March 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... year, according to the American Medical Association. This is the time to be putting calcium into the bone bank, said Denise Amschler, a professor in the physiology and health science department. It isn't hard. It really isn't. Osteoporosis literally ...

Article: Patients in US 5 times more likely to spend last days in ICU than ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... did. Of those over 85, only 1.3 percent received ICU care in England vs. 11 percent in the U.S. But young adults and children received ICU services at similar rates in both countries. "These numbers need to be interpreted with caution," explains ...

Article: More students than ever before studying engineering and physical ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     620 words ... ... at school according to a new poll of children aged 5 to 18. Engineering and Physical ... to create a support network for school children to encourage them to engage with science ... Scientist Centre has shown that more children are planning to opt for a science related ...