Sleep Medicine News

Higher sleep efficiency, but not duration, was associated with better report card grades, according to a new study.

Patients with asthma are at an increased risk for developing new-onset obstructive sleep apnea during their lifetime, according to a new study.

Insomnia is a common sleep disorder in which a person has trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or both, even though they have the opportunity for enough sleep. The amount of sleep needed varies, but the average adult needs seven to eight hours per night. Insomnia can be either short term (acute) or long term (chronic).

Researchers discovered a link between alcohol use and suicide risk in university students with insomnia symptoms, according to data published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Nocturnal blood pressure is less likely to dip for patients with fibromyalgia when compared to healthy controls, according to research from Gazi University Medical School in Ankara, Turkey.

The use of electronic devices such as eReaders before bedtime can worsen sleep deficiency, according to a recently published study.

Patients with gout were shown to be 2.4 times more likely to have a gout flare-up at night or in the early morning than in the daytime, according to study findings.

Half of melatonin products sold in the United States had significantly more or less melatonin than indicated on their labels, according to a recent study by the FDA.