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 ...

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

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 ...

People whose symptoms make it highly likely they have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can safely start treatment without first obtaining a confirmatory diagnosis in a sleep laboratory. So concludes a ...

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

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 ...