A new drug named “tasimelteon” has trialed to treat transitory insomnia caused by night shifts or jet leg and has shown satisfactory results, two new clinical trials concluded.

The phase II study on 39 volunteers, arbitrarily assigned to take 10 to 100 mg of tasimelteon or a placebo. After administration of drug they were monitored at baseline then after five-hour advance of sleep-wake for seven days.

In phase III of the study, included 411 patients who had temporary sleep induced insomnia in sleep-wake cycle. They received 20 to100 mg, depending on the intensity, 30 minutes before bedtime.

The volunteers were monitored to find out their sleep effectiveness and sleep latency. In comparison with placebo, tasimelteon showed improved sleep quality and decreased sleep latency, according to the researchers. They also noticed that patients using tasimelteon illustrated a fast shift in plasma melatonin rhythm.

This is very common now-a-days that while wife tries to sleep she finds her snoring husband on the other side of the bed, not even knowing the problem cause to make him snoring.In anger she takes her pillow and leaves to sleep in the living room on an uneasy couch. Often the end result is divorce.Statistics show that nearly 25% men suffer from this problem.

“This is a frequent problem within married that nobody is paying enough attention to,” says Dr.Rosalind Cartwright, founder of the Sleep Disorders Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and director of a new study looking into this topic.For one couple in Cartwright’s preliminary study, a husband’s snoring woke his wife over eight times an hour.This exhausted his wife and caused a lot of tension at home.

Some major causes of snoring

Obstructive sleep apnea is a medical problem in which soft tissues in the back of the throat collapse during sleep and cause snoring. This problem often occurs in obese, middle age men. Sleep apnea makes people tired during the day as it prevents people from entering into a deep sleep.Oxygen deprivation caused by sleep apnea van cause high hypertension, heart diseases, stroke, memory problems and impotence.Bad impact on the snorer’s bed partner is another side effect of sleep apnea.