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People who sleep less than six hours a night may be three times more likely to develop a condition which leads to diabetes and heart…

A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found an elevated risk of death in men with a…

A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that teens who slept less than eight hours…

Burning the candle at both ends for a week may take an even bigger toll than you thought.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that five…

People who have trouble sleeping in noisy environments often resort to strategies like earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones that muffle the sound, but a new study from investigators…

A new survey of child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least a quarter of these patients are given…

A good night’s sleep is crucial to daily function, but more than 40 million Americans live with an undiagnosed or untreated sleep disorder in the United States. At Wake Forest University…

Drinking tart cherry juice daily could help reduce the severity of insomnia and time spent awake after going to sleep, according to a new…

Head and neck cancer patients who reported poor sleep quality one year after diagnosis had more symptoms of chronic pain and complaints…

Some 19 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq have migraine and migraine is suspected in another 17 percent. While prevalence of migraine among the U.S. military is well documented…

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health have established the first link between air pollution and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), a known cause of…

The average academic grades of children and teens with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea are worse than the grades of students who have no…

Excessive sleepiness is more common in the U.S. than in Europe, which raises concerns for public health and safety, according to a research abstract that will…

Nighttime noise from nearby road traffic, passing trains and overhead planes disturbs sleep and impairs morning performance, according to a research abstract that will be presented…

There is an extremely high prevalence of sleep disturbances in U.S. soldiers returning from wartime deployment, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday,…

People with brain injuries may produce low amounts of melatonin, which affects their sleep, according to a study published in the May 25, 2010, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal…

Insufficient sleep and poor sleep quality, considered endemic in modern society, are associated with obesity, impaired glucose tolerance and…

Adolescents who don’t get enough sleep may gain more than some extra time to play video games or text their friends. They also may gain weight, according…

Working the nightshift interferes with sleep, particularly for workers in their 30s and 40s, reports a study in the April Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of…

For commercial motor vehicle drivers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), effective treatment lowers healthcare costs and disability rates, reports a study in the May Journal of…

A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests that playing a video game…

A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that having a sleep disturbance is…

Shifting work schedules can wreak havoc on a person’s ability to get enough sleep, resulting in poor performance on the job.

Researchers…

Men who do not receive a good night’s sleep may be prone to obesity, according to a new study from the European Centre for Taste Sciences. The study, published in the…

A British study finds that the condition known as floppy eyelid syndrome (FES) is strongly associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), implying that when doctors see FES in a patient,…