Health Canada has announced label updates for several medications used in the short-term treatment of insomnia. The prescription sleep aids subject to the label revision include: * Dalmane, Som Pam (flurazepam) * Mogadon, Nitrazadon (nitrazepam) * [...]
Workers at an Oklahoma City day care center were fired after its director learned a child was given an unauthorized sleep aid. An employee at Special Care Laugh and Learn was supposed to have given a dose of melatonin to one child, and intentionally gave it to a second child, said Pam Newby, executive director for the day care. Melatonin is an herbal sleep aid, but it could cause stomach and …
