Restless Leg Syndrome Factsheet

SEATTLE — Northwest Hospital & Medical Center today announced the opening of the Northwest Hospital Sleep Center, a newly constructed sleep laboratory on its main campus. Under the direction and supervision of medical director Ralph Pascualy, M.D Read more

It s been estimated that over 70 million Americans suffer from some type of sleep disorder that can affect your life in many ways. Sleep Disorders can be the cause of poor work or school performance, mood problems, lack of energy and the inability Read more

It’s one of those nights. You’ve been watching the numbers change on the clock for hours and the sheep you were counting have long since turned into lamb chops. If you’re racking up more hours awake than asleep, you’re not alone. According to the Read more

Elizabeth Williamson reports from Fairbanks, Alaska, on the presidential race. Alaskans hang on every word Gov. Sarah Palin has been saying on the campaign trail and they re noticing a lot of those words are the same. The Fairbanks Daily News Read more

Why do women have such trouble sleeping? The reasons are as numerous as the passel of pills on the market: anxiety, depression, chronic illness, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, everyday exhaustion the list goes on and on. Read more

Kroger Co ( KR ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist Kroger Co. KR reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008. Sales were $423 above consensus estimates, while its EPS were $0.01 ahead of the consensus Read more

As opposed to other forms of exercise, yoga brings down the heart rate and the rate of breathing. You must have noticed that when you are nervous or stressed, your heart rate increases and your breathing becomes shallow. Yoga makes use of the fact Read more

In true and dubious movie fashion, The Duchess transforms a serious, carefully researched biography of historical significance by best-selling British writer Amanda Foreman into a bucket of frothy banality overwhelmed by wigs, costumes, gilt-edged Read more

Magnesium supplementation may be indicated when a specific health condition causes an excessive loss of magnesium or limits the absorption of the trace mineral, according to different Web sites on the Internet, as well as a local pharmacist. I found Read more

In my heart’s core. – Shakespeare, Hamlet 111, 2 Like it or not, believe it or not, we are all slaves to passion, and those who are not, I take pity on them. It’s passion that makes our hearts race, our blood flow, our adrenalin rush, our breath Read more

Peter Barry isn’t a doctor, a nutritionist or even an herbal healer, but customers constantly stroll into Baltimore’s OK Natural Food Store seeking his advice on vitamins. What’s he got for hypertension? For energy? And the one everyone whispers Read more

Alexandria s Compton Park will serve as the site for the first local restless leg syndrome Foundation Twilight Walk at 6 p.m. today to raise awareness of the disease. The syndrome is a neurological condition that keeps a person from sitting still More here

Five days after Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was picked as the Republican vice presidential nominee, NBC’s David Gregory falsely disputed the idea that the media had crossed a line by suggesting Palin’s family life conflicted with her candidacy More here

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Magnesium supplementation may be indicated when a specific health condition causes an excessive loss of magnesium or limits the absorption of the trace mineral, according to different Web sites on the Internet, as well as a local pharmacist. I found More here

Know somebody who likes to brag that he can get by on six hours of sleep a night? Tell him that men who sleep less than seven hours a night have a 26 percent greater death rate over a two-decade period than men who sleep seven to eight hours a night More here

To Post or View Comments, Scroll To The End of the Story. Ronald Dupont Jr. column: With this disease, the cure is worse than the illness I am a nightwalker. There are some days when I will go two days without sleep. I spend my nights watching More here

Andalusia Elementary School fifth graders Katlyne Chesteen and Clay Stephens work on a vocabulary assignment in class Thursday. AES exceeded the state s average benchmark for reading by 0.37 percent. The majority of Covington County s More here

JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) Finance chiefs of the Arab Gulf states yesterday approved proposals to set up a monetary council and a charter for a monetary union, the Arab bloc s secretary-general said. Finance and economy ministers of the six-member More here

The majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, a publisher and a Scottsdale broker are among the buyers and sellers of this week’s priciest homes in the Valley. $3,650,000. Timothy B. King Jr. and his wife, Joan paid cash for a five-bedroom, 5 1/2-bath, 7 More here

ROCHESTER, Minn. and WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation (RLS Foundation) and National Sleep Foundation (NSF) have joined together on a new national initiative about restless legs syndrome More here

GlaxoSmithKline has filed for U.S. approval of a drug it is co-marketing with XenoPort Inc. for restless legs syndrome. The company said Tuesday that it and its partner on the drug, Santa Clara-based XenoPort (NASDAQ:XNPT), submitted a New Drug Read more

Submission Based on Results from Pivotal Trials Evaluating Efficacy, Safety and Maintenance of Effect in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Primary RLS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall Read more

Submission Based on Results from Pivotal Trials Evaluating Efficacy, Safety and Maintenance of Effect in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Primary RLS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall Read more

As NHL training camps open up this week, we take a look at where each team stands. Here is our take, and questions, on the Western Conference. (Check out our Eastern Conference questions here .) Will it snow, rain, sleet or play out magically (or Read more

Restless legs syndrome may improve with vein treatment, suggests a study in Phlebology . Ninety-one percent of subjects with RLS, a neurological condition marked by uncomfortable tingling in the legs, also had a disease in which veins carry blood in Read more

GlaxoSmithKline ( NYSE: GSK ) and XenoPort, Inc. ( Nasdaq: XNPT ) announced today that a New Drug Application (NDA) has been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting approval of Solzira (gabapentin enacarbil) Extended Read more

SEATTLE and SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 17, 2008 /PRNewswire/Omeros Corporation and The Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to evaluate a novel target, proprietary to Omeros, for the Read more

If your legs burn and you can’t keep them still at night you may have a condition that is easily treated with over-the-counter medicine – or perhaps an iron or magnesium supplement. What is Restless Legs Syndrome? It is an uncomfortable sensation in Read more

RLS affects an estimated 12 million people in the United States and can result in distressing symptoms that disrupt sleep and significantly impact daily activities. Solzira is a non-dopaminergic new chemical entity that provides improvement in the Read more

Submission Based on Results from Pivotal Trials Evaluating Efficacy, Safety and Maintenance of Effect in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Primary RLS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall Read more

Restless legs syndrome may improve with vein treatment, suggests a study in Phlebology . Ninety-one percent of subjects with RLS, a neurological condition marked by uncomfortable tingling in the legs, also had a disease in which veins carry blood in Read more

Submission Based on Results from Pivotal Trials Evaluating Efficacy, Safety and Maintenance of Effect in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Primary RLS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. , Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall Read more

CASTROVILLE – Close calls are nothing new for Alisal-North County high school football games, but Saturday’s outcome may have topped them all. For a brief moment Alisal thought it had won the game when the official ruled that a two-point conversion Read more

GlaxoSmithKline said Tuesday it has asked U.S. health regulators to approve an experimental drug for restless leg syndrome which it developed with partner Xenoport. The companies have touted Solzira as the first drug to treat the disorder without cont

GlaxoSmithKline ( NYSE: GSK ) and XenoPort, Inc. ( Nasdaq: XNPT ) announced today that a New Drug Application (NDA) has been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting approval of Solzira (gabapentin enacarbil) Extended cont

Submission Based on Results from Pivotal Trials Evaluating Efficacy, Safety and Maintenance of Effect in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Primary RLS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall cont

GlaxoSmithKline has filed for U.S. approval of a drug it s co-marketing for restless legs syndrome. GSK said Tuesday that it and its partner on the drug, XenoPort Inc. (Nasdaq: XNPT), submitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug cont

Submission Based on Results from Pivotal Trials Evaluating Efficacy, Safety and Maintenance of Effect in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Primary RLS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. , Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall cont

RLS affects an estimated 12 million people in the United States and can result in distressing symptoms that disrupt sleep and significantly impact daily activities. Solzira is a non-dopaminergic new chemical entity that provides improvement in the cont

Note to readers: Questions piled up while I was busy with college basketball the past 10 days, including several about tires. Here’s a sampling: Question: : When is NASCAR going to get tired of seeing its star drivers catapulted into the walls cont

When Claire, a pixie-faced 6-year-old in a school uniform, heard her older brother, James, enter the family s Manhattan apartment, she shut her bedroom door and began barricading it so swiftly and methodically that at first I didn t understand cont

They moved me! They moved me! I hope you’ve refound me by now. I’ve finally figured out how to log into this new utility, so I’m reposting last night’s blog for ya. They were able to retain all the old blogs, but none of the comments! BOOOooo! Many cont

Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a “damaging revelation ” that has caused Sarah Palin’s image to “suffer.” Says who? Says ABC News, in an article by Rick Klein and Jennifer Parker. In Palin Pregnancy Rocks Political World , Klein and Parker report cont

After centuries of giving humanity little more than nicotine and death, the tobacco plant may be the wellspring of a revolution in gene therapy. Scientists are using a modified tobacco virus to deliver delicate gene therapies into the heart of Read more

Most people blame Big Pharma and the docs in its pocket for elevating everyday anxiety to depression, depression to bipolar disease and childhood behavior problems to major psychiatric diseases. But there are others to thank for the national Read more

Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a “damaging revelation ” that has caused Sarah Palin’s image to “suffer.” Says who? Says ABC News, in an article by Rick Klein and Jennifer Parker. In Palin Pregnancy Rocks Political World , Klein and Parker report Read more

They moved me! They moved me! I hope you’ve refound me by now. I’ve finally figured out how to log into this new utility, so I’m reposting last night’s blog for ya. They were able to retain all the old blogs, but none of the comments! BOOOooo! Many Read more

Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams : Can I give Ryan and Rachel more ink? I’ll try. The adorable duo, who met while playing lovers in The Notebook took their reel love into the real world this year. Both Canadian , they seem to have a lot in common — and Read more

Note to readers: Questions piled up while I was busy with college basketball the past 10 days, including several about tires. Here’s a sampling: Question: : When is NASCAR going to get tired of seeing its star drivers catapulted into the walls Read more

HAMILTON Ron Bucci had not had a good night’s rest in years and neither had his wife. “I had a very bad snoring problem and I was falling asleep during the day,” Bucci said. “I was tired and restless all the time.” Bucci found help when he went Read more

It s been estimated that over 70 million Americans suffer from some type of sleep disorder that can affect your life in many ways. Sleep Disorders can be the cause of poor work or school performance, mood problems, lack of energy and the inability Read more

Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a “damaging revelation ” that has caused Sarah Palin’s image to “suffer.” Says who? Says ABC News, in an article by Rick Klein and Jennifer Parker. In Palin Pregnancy Rocks Political World , Klein and Parker report Read more

SEATTLE — Northwest Hospital & Medical Center today announced the opening of the Northwest Hospital Sleep Center, a newly constructed sleep laboratory on its main campus. Under the direction and supervision of medical director Ralph Pascualy, M.D Read more

Most people blame Big Pharma and the docs in its pocket for elevating everyday anxiety to depression, depression to bipolar disease and childhood behavior problems to major psychiatric diseases. But there are others to thank for the national Read more

After centuries of giving humanity little more than nicotine and death, the tobacco plant may be the wellspring of a revolution in gene therapy. Scientists are using a modified tobacco virus to deliver delicate gene therapies into the heart of Read more

Two weeks ago we had the puppy-beater , and now we have the puppy-tosser. What is with all the puppy abuse? Anthony Blow has thrown a poor pooch down the garbage chute while fighting with his girlfriend , Robin Hines. What s worse than sending your Read more