Healthy sleep habits help lower risk of heart failure
Scientists from Tulane University found that people with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42% lower risk of heart failure regardless of other risk...
This engineered mattress could trick your body to fall asleep faster
When people feel sleepy or alert, that sensation is controlled in part by the ebb and flow of a 24-hour rhythm of their body...
Sleep history could predict Alzheimer’s disease later in life
Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley found that sleep patterns can predict the accumulation of Alzheimer's pathology proteins later in life.
These findings could...
Scientists find two drugs could effectively treat sleep loss, insomnia
Scientists from Oxford University found two drugs, eszopiclone and lemborexant—both not currently licensed for the treatment of insomnia in the UK—were shown to perform...
This drug can treat sleep loss, insomnia, Stanford research shows
Scientists from Stanford University found drug daridorexant (50 mg) improves both nighttime symptoms and daytime functioning in people with insomnia disorder.
Daridorexant, sold under the...
Brain inflammation may link Alzheimer’s risk, sleep loss
Scientists from the University of California Irvine found that brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's disease risk with sleep disturbance, which may aid early detection...
Shift work linked to severe stroke later in life
As most Americans wind down for bed, 15 million people are just clocking into work.
These hospital workers, emergency responders, factory operators, and others are...
Sleep apnea linked to increased risk of dementia
Scientists from Monash University found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been linked to an increased risk of dementia.
They found that severe OSA is...
Scientists find a link between daytime napping and Alzheimer’s disease
In a recent study from Rush University, scientists found there is a link between cognitive decline and excessive daytime napping.
The connection appears to occur...
This smart earbud will measure how astronauts sleep
Sleep is important for our health and well-being, and bad sleep can negatively impact our attention span, memory, decision-making skills, creativity and judgment.
Astronauts living...