To make ends meet these days, many Americans are sacrificing sleep to work night shifts or juggle two jobs.
Research suggests, though, that lack of sleep can lead to memory problems, depression, cardiovascular concerns, cancer and increased risk of accidents.
“In the last couple of years, I’ve seen mor…

Booths # 23-25 at the Annual Dialysis Conference — NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, announced the latest interim results from its ongoing FREEDOM study, which show the significant improvement of overall sleep quality and marked improvement in Restless Legs Syn…

National Sleep Foundation’s Annual Sleep in America poll explores sleep issues among Asians, African-Americans, Hispanics and whites…
The 2010 Sleep in America poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) reveals significant differences in the sleep habits and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/Africa…

Keeping children physically active is key…
A bit of parental wisdom known to most moms and dads: If you want to get a good night’s sleep yourself, just keep your kids running all day long. An early night and undisturbed sleep are almost guaranteed. But is it true?
New research says it is. A study in the [.…

Children with insomnia and shorter sleep duration had impaired modulation of heart rhythm during sleep, Pennsylvania researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
In a study of young children, researchers showed that insomnia …

People who are stressed by daily problems or trouble at work seem to be more likely to grind their teeth at night. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Head & Face Medicine studied the causes of ’sleep bruxism’, gnashing teeth during the night, finding that it was especially commo…

This is the first study to describe the longitudinal effect of sleep duration on changes in CT-derived abdominal fat deposits in a large minority cohort…
A study in the March 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that African–American and Hispanic young adults with short or long sleep durations had greater increase…