Postpartum depression (PPD) can lead to poor sleep quality, recent research shows. A study published in the current issue of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing shows that depression symptoms worsen in PPD patients when their quality of sleep declines. Sleep deprivation can hamper a mother’s a…

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lack of sleep can make us feel distracted, foggy and forgetful, and a new study helps explain why. Working with mice, Dr. Robert W. Greene of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and colleagues identified a key molecular mechanism that regulates the brain&…

People who sleep less than six hours a night appear to have a higher risk of developing impaired fasting glucose — a condition that can precede type 2 diabetes, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. Type 2 diabetes, the mo…