Despite our feverish obsession with health hacks, one vital component, regardless of how many times it's reiterated, often gets overlooked—sleep. The coveted recommendation of clocking six to eight ...

Forger takes a more favorable view toward the devices, which he says help keep the overlooked importance of sleep front of ...

“If someone is a good sleeper, then each night they probably get in bed and fall asleep. So when they get into bed it ...

Sleep is an independent and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) , prompting a shift towards routine bidirectional screening in clinical practice. Experts concluded the Sleep ...

Experts explain the science—and what to do to lower your risk.

A groundbreaking analysis of sleep patterns and metabolic health has revealed a concerning connection between irregular sleep schedules and the development of type 2 diabetes. Drawing from data on ...

Preliminary results from the "SNAPSHOT study", an NIH-funded collaborative research project between the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and MIT Media Lab ...

A new study suggests that while healthy preterm children have more medical sleep problems than full-term children, they are more likely to fall asleep independently. Results show that preterm children ...

In the 1990s, a woman approached sleep neurologist Christopher Jones at the University of Utah with an unusual complaint. She would fall asleep very early in the evening and wake up for the day at 2AM ...

As the clocks "go forward" for large parts of the U.S. this weekend, you may well miss the resulting lost hour of sleep. However, the health impacts of the shift into daylight saving time (DST) are ...