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…

With the novel use of a technique that uses light to control brain cells, Stanford University researchers have shown that fragmented sleep causes memory impairment in mice. Until recently scientists have been unable to tease out the effects on the brain of different yet intertwined features of sleep. But these investigators w…

When you can’t sleep, you know it. But what about when you can, yet you wake up feeling tired and achy or you’re groggy again a few hours later? What’s that about? All too often, it turns out, the problem is one that doesn’t keep you awake but does sabotage your sleep in more subtle [...]

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…