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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …