What your body was up to while you were sleeping might make you blush… If you’re confiding in a friend about sleep problems, the conversation might turn to topics like not getting enough rest or tossing and turning at night. But what about things your body does during sleep – like drooling, snoring, bedwetti…

What is insomnia? The meaning of the term ‘sleep onset insomnia’, causes, treatments and it’s relation with depression is all there in this article. Go through the same to find out more… Insomnia can be defined as a disorder in which a person finds it difficult to sleep. There are various patterns of i…

Philips Respironics unveiled its Alice 6 sleep diagnostic system along with new mask interfaces at SLEEP 2011. The Alice 6 sleep diagnostic system includes a choice of three head boxes ranging from the Alice LDE for routine sleep studies to the full-featured LDx base station with either the LDxS or LDxN head box. The LDxS [..…

Stanford study is the first to document how sleep extension affects the performance of actively competing athletes… A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that sleep extension is beneficial to athletic performance, reaction time, vigor, fatigue and mood in collegiate basketball players. The study is the …

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea could benefit from following a low energy diet to lose weight, finds research published on bmj.com. Approximately 60% to 70% of patients with sleep apnea are either overweight or obese. Previous studies in other patient groups have concluded that losing weight can improve the condition. T…