- A woman in Wichita says her husband died as a result of an unintentional overdose of pharmaceuticals he purchased online, without a doctor's prescription.

The woman, who chose to remain anonymous to protect her husband's family, said her husband took about nine Somas a night, which he said he needed to sleep, according to CNN news. The man became addicted to the drug after it was prescribed to him when he was injured in a car accident. His wife said she thought doctors were still prescribing the drugs. They were not

Adjusting meal times can help people beat jet lag on long haul flights, scientists say. Since our brain knows how to keep track of meal-times just as it does of daytime, the time at which one has the meals has a much bigger effect on the body clock than previously thought.

Researchers from Harvard University believe that avoiding food on long haul flights, then eating on arrival, could cut the time it takes to adjust to a new time zone. When our body is not given food, the "feeding clock" of our body overrides the light-based "time clock" keeping the person wake until they find food

Six to nine hours of sleep are the recommended length of time to a healthier body. The window hours were determined by a study conducted by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

The study, released Wednesday, linked excessive or lack of sleep to obesity. According to the academy's door-to-door survey of 87,000 American adults between 2004 to 2006, 33 percent of those who slept less than six hours had excess weight, while 26 percent of those whose shuteyes went beyond nine hours similarly were obese

About one-third of children in pediatric intensive care units experience frightening delusions that stay with them for a longer time, a new study has found. Powerful hallucinations where children reported seeing various animals like cats and spiders were most common in children who had to be sedated for more than two days, and in youngsters who were admitted on an emergency basis.

According to a study in the first May issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, these delusional memories put the children at far higher risk of post traumatic stress disorder

Biologists have discovered that the eye uses light to reset the biological clock, but it does this through a mechanism that is separate from the ability to see.

The new research by a biologist at John Hopkins University has implications for people who suffer from insomnia or seasonal affective disorder