(Reuters Health) – Bones may age faster in older women who get too little sleep, a U.S. study suggests. Based on data from nearly 11,000 participants in a long-term study, researchers found that postmenopausal women who slept less than five hours a night were ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Widespread beliefs about sleeping include advice on how much sleep is enough, what quality sleep means and how to achieve it, but when these pronouncements are wrong, they can do more harm than good, researchers argue. The study team gathere... More »
(This February 28 story has been refiled to use initial caps in paragraph 7 to indicate that Transcendental Meditation is a registered trademark) By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Roughly half of U.S. adults suffer from sleep problems, and research suggests ... More »
(Reuters Health) – National Guard soldiers may be plagued with sleep problems when they return home from the battlefield, according to a small study. For the new analysis, published online in Sleep Health, researchers first surveyed 928 veterans on National Gu... More »
(Reuters Health) – When teens get extra sleep on school nights, they might cut back mostly on sedentary activities like screen time without making major changes to their exercise habits, a small experiment suggests. Researchers asked 18 adolescents who regular... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women with sleep disorders other than sleep apnea may be more than three times as likely to experience infertility as their counterparts who don’t have trouble sleeping, a recent study suggests. When insomnia was to blame for women’s sleepin... More »
By Madeline Kennedy(Reuters Health) – – Catching up on lost sleep over weekends may help people keep their weight down, according to a study in South More »
By Marilynn Larkin(Reuters Health) – College students who go to sleep and wake up at different times during the week may be harming their academic pe More »
By Shereen Lehman(Reuters Health) – Starting classes at middle school and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. would help teens arrive alert, healt More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – In children with a common condition that causes them to periodically stop breathing during sleep, areas of the More »
By Shereen Lehman(Reuters Health) – Getting too little sleep in early childhood is linked to cognitive and behavioral problems years later, a U.S. st More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – In the U.S. alone, more than 6,000 people die in drowsy driving-related motor vehicle crashes each year, a recent More »
By Shereen LehmanPreschoolers whose natural preference is for going to bed and waking up on the late side are more likely than their early-bird peers More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Adults who sleep no more than five hours a night are more likely to be heavy soda drinkers than people who get mor More »
By Kathryn Doyle(Reuters Health) – Obstructive sleep apnea is linked with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research shows. More »
(Reuters Health) – Updated sleep recommendations for children and teens point to the benefits of getting enough sleep and the dangers of getting too little. “At least 25 percent of 12-year-olds get less than the recommended nine hours of sleep per night and th... More »
WASHINGTON Maybe we cannot blame late-night TV, endless Internet surfing, midnight snacks, good books, bothersome work deadlines and other distractions of modern life for encroaching on our sleep. Research unveiled on Thursday showed that people in isolated an... More »
(Reuters Health) – Even though most caregivers agree on the importance of safe infant sleep practices, many of them may not know what to do – or not do – to prevent sleep-related deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a U.S. study suggests. Researche... More »
BERLIN Insomniacs, light sleepers and others who blink bleary eyes every morning could be the next target of technology companies looking to come up with ideas to improve any given aspect of consumers’ lives. Samsung Electronics Co and Panasonic Corp both show... More »
