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Golfers who undergo treatment for sleep apnea may improve their golf game as well as their overall health, shows new research. A new study presented at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual…

Skimping on sleep, is unhealthy, but it doesn’t make people fat, according to a new study.

“We hoped we were going to find good evidence for that,” Dr. Diane…

Daytime sleepiness caused by the nighttime breathing disorder sleep apnea is nothing to yawn at.

A new study from Canada hints that the risk of diabetes may be two to…

A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report…

More than 12 million people in the U.S. suffer from sleep apnea, most common among the overweight and obese. More than just loud snoring, it can lead to high blood…

Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease makes Alzheimer’s brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis…

How could something that feels so good - a long night’s sleep - have negative consequences? Unfortunately, that is one possibility that results of a new study suggest: Older adults…

Just because they’re sick doesn’t mean that children with chronic illness will sleep peacefully through the night, new research from Norway shows.

Children with sleep problems often don’t outgrow…

Exhausted Australian doctors have been told to drink up to six cups of coffee a day to stay awake during extended shifts, building pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to…

Can’t sleep at night? A new study published in the journal Sleep has found that people who suffer from insomnia have heightened nighttime blood pressure, which can lead to cardiac problems.…

A study in the Sept.1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that current or past exposure to workplace bullying is associated with increased sleep disturbances. Associations also were found between…

Children who were born at a relatively small size may be more likely than their peers to have sleep difficulties, a new study suggests.

The study, which included 289…

Severe breathing disorders during sleep, such as sleep apnea, can kill, a study in more than 6,000 people shows.

Men 40 to 70 years old with severe sleep-disordered breathing…

Teens who exercise vigorously have a better quality of sleep than their couch-potato peers, according to a new Swiss study.

Four hundred thirty-four adolescents participated, including 258 students who were part of…

A study in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP indicates that children have an increased risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) if they…

Sleep apnea, a condition in which people stop breathing during periods of deep sleep, often associated with obesity, may considerably threaten the ability to work even years before diagnosis,…

Many people sleep better when they are on holiday and wish that they could sleep as well all the time. But according to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency…

“Where care lodges, sleep will never lie,” says Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet.

Today, millions of Americans can attest to his insight. According to a poll from the National Sleep Foundation…

Stanford University researchers have an idea that may be something to sleep on.

If not enough sleep is bad, they wondered, could extended sleep be good?

They had a hunch…

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with behavior problems in children with asthma, researchers have found.

“Studies have linked asthma symptoms with both childhood behavior problems and troubled sleep,”…

An online insomnia intervention based on established face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy techniques appears to improve patients’ sleep, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of…

The estimated one-third of adults who suffer from insomnia could soon find effective treatment without ever leaving their homes. Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System…

Chinese medicine has a variety of methods for helping people get a good night’s sleep. When suffering from insomnia or other sleep problems, these methods are also useful. As long as you…

A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that levels of inflammatory markers varied significantly with self-reported sleep duration in…

There is a statistically significant association between type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) during REM sleep, results of a study indicate.

In comments to Reuters Health, principal investigator Dr.…