Sleep News

With over 300 million sufferers worldwide, neck pain, along with other musculoskeletal conditions, is a growing concern globally.

How's your bedroom hygiene? If a sleep therapist asks you this, they aren't interested in your vacuuming habits or laundry routine.

Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug was safe and effective at the lower of two doses studied, a panel of medical experts said on Wednesday, increasing the chance it will be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

They affect millions of Americans and an estimated 1020 percent of the global population.

With more than 40 million people-roughly a third of working Americans-not getting enough shut-eye, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's no wonder that industries ranging from furniture makers to pharmaceutical companies are making big money by offering to help people get the recommended seven to nine hours a night.

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: Depression ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 21 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT Optimal treatment of sleep apnea in patients with prediabetes improves blood sugar levels and thus can reduce cardiometabolic risk, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society International ... (more)

But evidence suggests some people who suffer from the sleep problem may already be starting to develop pre-symptomatic dementia.

Dear Doctor K: I'm 40 years old and in good health. But lately I've been falling asleep suddenly during the day.

Sleep. It occupies about one-third of our lives. We need it for our mental and physical health, and for our survival.

For over two decades every night 63 year-old Darrell Holmquist's sleep was always interrupted.

Children are a mystery and a joy to have around. They will make you laugh and also cause you to pull your hair out.

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: MRSA / Drug Resistance ; Alzheimer's / Dementia Article Date: 20 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Frontiers in Endocrinology Differential roles of orexin receptors in the regulation of sleep/wakefulness Takeshi Sakurai, the lead author on the 1998 article that first described orexin, here ... (more)

ConsumerAffairs' culture and lifestyle reporter, Daryl Nelson has written for Readers Digest, Townsquare Media, AllHipHop.com and a number of other online and print publications.

Like it or not, the long-awaited DSM-V arrived today. Although there has been much criticism and controversy [1] surrounding its changes, I'd like to point out some of the potential benefits.

Upwards of 70 million Americans suffer from the debilitating effects of insomnia and other sleep disorders.

If you want to get in beach body shape for summer, don't spare a sagging mattress, especially if you're losing sleep over it.

More and more of them are coming to find out patients are not just tossing and turning in bed.

Most of us don't get enough sleep at night, and that can lead to poor performance at work the next day.

As college students are cramming for their finals this week, there's a new study released about kids and prescription drugs.

Good things really do come in small packages. And when it comes to your health, pistachios pack a powerful punch: They help you manage your weight, may help reduce blood pressure and a study published in the "International Journal of Impotence Research" shows they may even help with erectile function.