If you or someone in your household has narcolepsy, you know how much this condition can affect daily life. People with narcolepsy have fragmented nighttime sleep and extreme sleepiness during the day ...

One of the biggest threats to a man’s heart after 40 doesn’t show up in the gym, the kitchen, or even at the doctor’s office. It shows up in the bedroom at night. Obstructive sleep apnea doesn’t just ...

Thinking about using a CPAP machine to quell sleep apnea? It's not necessarily a good idea for everyone, a new evidence review argues. This common treatment for sleep apnea might increase some folks' ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have found evidence that type-1 narcolepsy, a condition known for its "sleep attacks," is caused by the body's own immune system. The work is ...

Heart attacks are the leading cause of death all across the world. Heart attacks can occur anytime, even in sleep, which is quite scary for people with underlying heart conditions. Even though regular ...

This past weekend, most of us participated in daylight savings by turning our clocks back an hour. If you did participate, you gained an extra hour of sleep—but what you probably didn’t know is that ...

Sleep apnea often goes unnoticed but it can sharply increase heart attack and stroke risk, even in people with normal health reports ...