Getting quality sleep and enough of it is essential for mental and physical health. If you've ever had a bad night's sleep, then you know how much it can affect your entire day. If this becomes a ...

Sleep is our cornerstone for physical and mental health, yet for millions, it remains elusive due to sleep disorders. These conditions disrupt regular sleep patterns, leading to a host of physical, ...

Over a 5-year period, the incidence of sleep disorders was higher in people living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) vs those without. The absolute risk of being diagnosed with any sleep disorder was higher ...

Insomnia is the most well-known sleep disorder, but it’s far from the only one. Countless people of all ages struggle with sleep disorders that negatively affect the quality of their sleep, cause them ...

The American Medical Association reports that about 30 million people in the US live with sleep apnea, but only one-fifth of these cases are clinically diagnosed. That means that many people are ...

Sleep apnea and other types of sleep disorders appear to elevate the risk for some types of cancer, specifically prostate cancer, more so than others. But the overall risk can be highly variable, and ...

It’s the stuff of nightmares. You wake up, and you can’t move your body. A shadowy figure looms over you, but it feels too real to be a dream. If you’ve experienced this, you might have had a sleep ...

Idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) is a rare sleep disorder that causes extreme tiredness during the day for no clear reason. The word “idiopathic” means there’s no known cause, and “hypersomnia” means ...

People with certain types of long-term sleep disorders may use a medicine called sodium oxybate to help treat their condition. This medicine is taken at night and may help people with narcolepsy to ...