THURSDAY, July 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Insomniacs have a much higher risk for depression if they have chronic inflammation, a new sleep lab experiment says. Seniors with insomnia were three times as likely to report symptoms of depression if they’d been dosed with a substance that promotes inflammation, accordingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Mouth taping is one of the latest health fads to swamp social media, driven by celebrity endorsements from the likes of Gwenyth Paltrow and Ashley Graham. The practice of taping your mouth shut as you sleep is meant to prevent mouth breathing, inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them. But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called dysphagia, a new study says. Dysphagia is aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Removing the tonsils and adenoids can improve the sleep of kids with mild breathing problems that disturb their slumber, a new clinical trial reports. Children with sleep problems needed to see a doctor 32% less often and had a 48% reduction in medicationContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Teens who sleep fewer than 7.7 hours are more likely to have high blood pressure, a new study suggests. Likewise, those suffering from both insomnia and a lack of sleep are five times more likely to have high blood pressure exceeding 140 systolic,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Seniors battling insomnia are best off picking up some dumbbells or doing some push-ups, a new evidence review suggests. Resistance exercise, activities that make muscles work against an external force, appears to be the best means of improving sleep in older adults, researchersContinue Reading
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MONDAY, Jan. 13, 2025 (HealthDay news) — The sleep aid Ambien could be allowing toxic proteins to pollute the brain, potentially increasing a person’s risk of disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. Drugs like the main ingredient in Ambien, zolpidem, suppresses a system designed to clear protein waste from the brain duringContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Ever woke in the night with your thoughts racing about work problems, co-worker disputes, or heavy career decisions? Well, it’s more common than you think. Job stress is robbing U.S. workers of the sleep they need, researchers reported in a study published Jan.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 8 in 10 Americans go through the day in a fog that interferes with their jobs, their moods and their relationships. Chalk it up to sleepiness: A new survey shows that 54% of Americans think they just don’t get enough sleep. “DaytimeContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Consistently bad sleep is linked to a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. Both too little and too much sleep is tied to diabetes risk, and swinging wildly between the two patterns of poor sleep reflects the mostContinue Reading