Going back to school should not be just an excuse for kids to get new clothes and school supplies. Instead, say University of Alabama at Birmingham experts, it also should be a time to get them back to healthier sleep schedules. Long summer days lend themselves to later nights and fewer hours of restorative slumber, [...]

When parents fight, infants are likely to lose sleep, researchers report. “We know that marital problems have an impact on child functioning, and we know that sleep is a big problem for parents,” said Jenae M. Neiderhiser, professor of psychology, Penn State. New parents often report sleep as being the most proble…

A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline, “Polysomnography for Sleep Disordered Breathing Prior to Tonsillectomy in Children”, was published as a supplement to the July issue of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. This guideline provides otolaryngologists with evidence-based recommendations for using po…

The Battleground School District in Battleground, Washington doesn’t think so and they are going to do something about it. Starting at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year, most schools in the district will start and end their day one half hour later than it did last year. The School District sights national studies t…

Children should no longer be given a widely-used flu vaccine over concerns it is linked to a rare sleep disorder, the European drug regulator has recommended. The European Medicine Agency said that Pandemrix should only be given to the under-20s if they are at risk of contracting swine flu and alternative jabs are not availab…