A headband that tickles a nerve in the forehead could help tackle insomnia.
Up to 30 per cent of adults suffer from the condition at some point, which is defined as experiencing difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, waking up too early and poor-quality sleep.
If this occurs for three nights a week or more, and continues for more than three months, it is known as chronic insomnia, which is associated with depression, high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Chronic insomnia also increases the chance of an accident by four-and-a-half times because of daytime sleepiness.
While stress and worry are the main causes of insomnia, other factors can play a part. Certain medical conditions are associated with insomnia including arthritis (because of the pain) and sleep apnoea (where your breathing stops and starts while you are asleep).
On this day in 1857, Greek poet Dionysios Solomos passes away
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Dionysios Solomos (Διονύσιος Σολωμός) is considered the national poet of Greece- not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature.
Born in Zakynthos on April 8, 1798, he was the illegitimate child of a wealthy count, Nikolaos Solomos, and his housekeeper, Angeliki Nikli.
In November 1815, Solomos enrolled at Pavia University’s Faculty of Law (Italy), and graduated in 1817.
From young, he was interested in the flourishing Italian literature and began writing poems in that language.
Vaccine Skepticism Helped Put Them in Power. Can They Inoculate Italy?
The Five Star Movement’s long history of sowing doubt about vaccines may have made Italy’s mass inoculation program that much harder. The irony is not lost on Italians.
Vaccinations underway at a hospital in Piacenza, Italy, last month.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021
ROME Over a decade ago, an activist in Italy’s Five Star Movement wrote to the nascent party’s leaders to tell them that his law firm, after years of seeking “damages from vaccination,” had convinced a judge that a vaccine was a potential source of autism.