Topic: Sheldon Cohen

The Harvard Square Business Association honored Sheldon Cohen, a man known for more than six decades as the “unofficial mayor of Harvard Square,”...

Review - The Sweater

Sheldon Cohen's animated short, The Sweater has a running time of only ten minutes and twenty-one seconds, but it manages to pack a powerful punch. The film represents the importance of hockey to boys growing up in rural Quebec, but goes ...

Catching Zs Reduces Risk of Catching a Cold

The article offers information on the study conducted by Sheldon Cohen and colleagues of the Carnegie Mellon University regarding the importance of adequate sleep to the health of a person in the U.S. Sheldon concluded that sleep disturbance influences the regulation ...

Lack of Sleep Linked to Common Cold

If you get less than seven hours of sleep a night, you're three times more likely to catch a cold. "Regular sleep habits may play an important role in your immune system's ability to fight off infectious disease," said study ...

Staying Healthy Never Felt So Good

Why is it that when you are working hard and multitasking like a superhero, you tend to get sick? A recent study by Sheldon Cohen from Carnegie Mellon University examined the relationship between sleep habits and susceptibility to the common cold. As ...

Avoid Colds by Sleeping

People who sleep less than 7 hours each night are three times more likely to get a cold. What is probably happening is that during sleep the body has a chance to do lots of immune system maintenance that can't be ...
Study says sleeping 8 hours a night regularly can help prevent coldsFluff up the pillows and pull up the covers. "The longer you sleep, the better off you are, the less susceptible you are to colds," said lead author Sheldon Cohen, who ...

Poor Sleep Habits Raise Risk of Common Cold

Exposure to rhinovirus is more likely to lead to the development of a cold in people who have less than seven hours' sleep each night compared to their better-rested counterparts, according to a report published online Jan. 12 in the Archives of ...

NCCAM Welcomes Six New Members to Its National Advisory Council

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) welcomes six new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM). Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH Stephen Barnes, Ph.D., University of Alabama at ...