A variety of laboratory tests are available to determine whether a patient has good sleep health, but a simple way to ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My doctor thinks I may have sleep apnea, and he wants me to go to a sleep lab to be tested. What will happen during the testing? DEAR READER: Sleep apnea is a serious health condition ...

For Jeff Payne, Citizens Medical Center’s emergency service director, being alert and on the ball is critically important. However, over the last few years he has become increasingly lethargic getting ...

Obesity and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are closely related. Weight loss, surgery, and other treatments can improve OSA symptoms effectively.

Melatonin is the best-known natural sleep supplement. It is a hormone produced in the brain that increases at night to signal ...

A 2008 review paper showed that across several studies, when participants sleep in the laboratory, about a third of the time, they dream about the laboratory. The author (Schredl, 2008) suggested this ...

Everybody sleeps, yet we still know so little about why, what the brain does while we do or how it affects people’s behavior. Recent studies conducted bythe University’s joint sleep research lab with ...