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Sleep is one of the most essential activities for human health, but it’s also one of the most neglected. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 14.5 percent of adults ...

Healthy adults generally require between 7 - 9 hours of quality sleep. However, approximately 1 in 3 American adults admit to regularly getting less sleep than they need. This can lead to sleep ...

How to deal with insomnia? It's one of the most searched sleep-related questions on Google right now (searches are up over 5,000% in the last 30 days), so it seems we’re living in something of a ...

Do you find yourself tossing and turning at night, watching the hours slip away as sleep eludes you? Or do you wake up feeling groggy and unrefreshed, no matter how long you’ve spent in bed? Learning ...

Swapping from day shifts to night shifts and back again is all too familiar to nurses. It’s tiring work that can lead to sleepless nights, all thanks to a maladjusted body clock. There are ways, ...

On a special episode (first released on July 24, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The question is: Why do we struggle to sleep? Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Excerpt to talk ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

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Snoring is seen as a comical thing that couples bicker over. But chronic snoring can also be a sign of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), which is tied to an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart ...