Little sleep in youth risks MS later on
GETTING less than seven hours sleep as a teenager can lead to a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis, a study warns.
Insufficient and disturbed sleep in teen years could heighten the chance of being diagnosed with MS by 50 per cent, say scientists.
Reseachers discovered that quality sleep — defined as more than seven hours — while young may help ward off the condition.
The new study found teens who got too little sleep had a 40 per cent higher risk of MS.
Dr Torbjorn Akerstedt, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said: “Technology access contributes to insufficient sleep among adolescents and [is] an important public health issue.”
Ms Davis had previously said she would not shut down a unit if a few officers commit “some egregious act”.
“The whole idea that the Scorpion unit is a bad unit, I just have a problem with that,” Ms Davis said then.
Ms Davis became the first black female chief in Memphis one year after George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police.
At the time, she was chief in Durham, North Carolina, and had called for sweeping police reform.
Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, lawyers for the Nichols family, said the move was “a decent and just decision”.
“We must keep in mind that this is just the next step on this journey for justice and accountability, as clearly this misconduct is not restricted to these specialty units. It extends so much further,” they said.
The five disgraced officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — have been fired and charged with murder and other crimes in Mr Nichols’ death, which came three days after the arrest. They face up to 60 years in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.
The video images released on Friday showed police savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes while screaming profanities at him in an assault that the Nichols family legal team has
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