Anyone who has ever woken up in the middle of the night and struggled to go back to sleep knows the toll insomnia can take the following day. More than 17% of adults had trouble staying asleep most ...

Sleep is crucial to mental and physical health - and yet many people struggle with it. Now, experts claim that your daily ...

Lately, I’ve been waking up every night in the middle of the night like clockwork. It’s a bit of a mystery as to why: I haven’t been feeling particularly stressed about anything—not work, not my ...

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, sleep is important for cognitive abilities like memory, focus, and attention. In one study, students who slept six hours or less a night for two ...

As a young physician in Sydney, Australia in 1979, Colin Sullivan conceived of an experiment to help people with nighttime breathing issues. After several months of waiting for the right patient, he ...

"The bed was overwhelmingly perfumed ... to the extent that I was coughing and effectively lost a night’s sleep." ...

Have you ever slept a full eight hours but awakened feeling as tired as if you had pulled an all-nighter? If so, you may have experienced what’s known as unrefreshing sleep. Unrefreshing sleep, also ...

On Sunday, Americans will usher in daylight saving time, turning their clocks one hour ahead. Shifting clocks can leave many of us so sleep deprived the day after that experts have dubbed it “Sleepy ...

It turns out that squats are better than diddly-squat in the evening. New research finds that taking a break from the couch-potato life to do simple exercises before bed can help you sleep about a ...

In his later life, my father-in-law routinely woke up for the day at 3 a.m. He'd become such an early bird that he morphed into a night owl, a man resigned to a post-retirement inability to clock in ...

Dr. Gene Beresin answers the question: 'Helping 7-Year-Old Give Up Stuffed Toy?' — -- Question: A 7-year-old cannot sleep without her favorite stuffed animal and only in her bed. What should ...

Dr. John Walkup answers the question: 'Getting 10-Year-Old To Sleep In Own Bed?' July 1, 2009— -- Question: A 10-year-old cannot sleep in his own bed and climbs into his parents' bed in the ...