When all other risk factors are relatively equal, postmenopausal women who sleep between seven and eight hours each night are less likely to experience an ischemic attack, or stroke, than women of the same age group who sleep less than…

Many people think it’s impossible to go to bed without indulging in a late-night snack before hitting the sack.  Midnight gnoshing may make sleep come easier at first but that snack is likely to interrupt a good night’s sleep in…

Sleep apnea, which affects close to 20 million Americans, occurs when the muscles of the throat relax so much during sleep that the flow of air is blocked.  When air flow is blocked, so is the flow of oxygen to…

Time in college is a time for big change in daily living and establishing good habits, especially good sleep habits, often becomes less important than keeping up with studies and partying.  However, a recent study, conducted by a graduate student,…

The average adult needs between seven and eight hours of sleep each night for optimum health. Getting less than that, and getting more than that, signals health risks linked to poor lifestyle choices and excessive weight gain, according to the…

Shift workers, flight crews, truck drivers, emergency and medical personnel, and even patients in intensive care units don’t often get a full night’s uninterrupted sleep. And for a lot of people, a full night’s sleep occurs during the day.

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Women who’ve made peace with counting sheep instead of sleep now have something new to worry about all night long, according to sleep researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

Being a physician is not necessarily the glamorous depiction often portrayed on television shows. In real life, physicians suffer from sleep deprivation in much the same way as the general public does. Like the general public, physicians tend to turn…

One way to cope with chronic insomnia is to accept it and not worry too much about it but worry we should. We should also worry when a lifestyle too filled with things to do instead of sleep keeps us…

According to a study published in the recent issue of Sleep, brief 45 minute daytime naps improve memory performance. The study, conducted by Matthew A. Tucker, PhD, of the Center for Sleep and Cognition and the department of psychiatry at…