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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. |
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Children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may one day be able to have an injection or use a throat spray instead of getting their tonsils removed to cure their snoring, according to a new study from the University of Chicago, which found that a specific gene product may be responsible for the proliferation of adenotonsillar… |
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Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center and Hasbro Children’s Hospital researchers have received more than $2.5 million in direct costs from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the impact of asthma on the sleep quality and academic performance of y… |
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Only about 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep on an average school night, a large new study finds. The others are living with borderline-to-serious sleep deficits that could lead to daytime drowsiness, depression, headaches and poor performance at school. |
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Both adults and adolescents who smoke have reported difficulties sleeping, and young children exposed to tobacco smoke have poorer sleep quality. Recent research has found that children with asthma have more parent-reported sleep issues when exposed to tobacco smoke. The study, “Associations Between Secondhand Smoke Exp… |
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A study in the Dec issue of the journal Sleep suggests that changes in children’s sleep patterns that typically occur between the ages of 11 and 12 years are evident before the physical changes associated with the onset of puberty. |
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A study of the entire pediatric population of Sweden shows that the sibling risk of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea is extremely high in both boys and girls |

