Dec 2, 2013 | Kids and sleep, Sleep and health, Sleep Articles
The most common treatment used to help those with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is supportive therapy during sleep with a CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) machine. While this treatment can be very effective at treating the condition and alleviating the...
Nov 25, 2013 | Sleep and health, Sleep Articles
Our exploration of space has given us many things like Velcro and LEDs, but the most important thing we, as a species, may get from our spaceflights is a concrete view of what happens when we don’t get enough sleep. A groundbreaking study into the effects of...
Oct 14, 2013 | Sleep and women, Sleep Articles
There is no question that one of the hardest things about being a parent is not being able to get the sleep you need because your baby isn’t sleeping through the night. If you are bleary-eyed and longing for the teenage years already, try these time-tested,...
Oct 9, 2013 | Sleep and health, Sleep Articles
In recent years, research teams around the world have found numerous ways in which sleep impacts our bodies and our physical health. This ever-expanding understanding of how sleep impacts our overall health shows how skewed our attitudes about sleep have become. We...
Oct 8, 2013 | Sleep Articles
One of the most important things a major-league baseball player needs to be able to do is determine which pitches thrown their way are strikes and which are balls. The ability to differentiate between balls and strikes when the ball is going as much as 90 mph takes...
Aug 26, 2013 | Sleep Articles, Sleep Disorder
We have all heard stories about the friend of a friend who sleep-walked out of two story window and didn’t even get a bruise. Or, we’ve heard of the cheating boyfriend whose pillow talk revealed his infidelity. But do people really do these kinds of crazy...