Melatonin

SAN DIEGO — Results presented at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting showed patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty who were prescribed melatonin reported longer sleep duration in the immediate postoperative period.

Melatonin use was associated with a decreased risk for both development and progression of age-related macular degeneration among adults aged 50 years or older, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Approximately one in five parents responding to a national survey reported giving their child melatonin for sleep, researchers reported.

Seven out of every 10 ED visits for unsupervised medication exposures by infants and young children in the United States during a recent 4-year period were for unsupervised melatonin ingestion, researchers reported this week.

Melatonin is one of the most popular and easily accessible supplements today.

Almost one in five school-aged children and preteens now take melatonin for aid in sleeping, according to survey findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Melatonin may not improve postoperative sleep disturbance following total knee replacement, according to results presented at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting.

HONOLULU — The symptoms of jet lag can be mitigated through careful exposure to bright light and melatonin, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.