Aging brings various challenges and opportunities for reexamining sleep health. It’s time women’s health reaps the benefits of this new frontier.

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If scientists could figure out what these people do differently it might, they hope, provide insight into sleep’s very nature. “The bottom line is, we don’t understand what sleep is ...

To help, we've compiled ... role in regulating our sleep-wake cycles. If your body is higher in temperature, it's a signal that it's time to be awake. It's a reason why hot sleepers can have ...

When they do not function properly ... factors that result in a person dying in their sleep. These deaths may be caused by hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), but there isn't enough evidence to know ...

How do lasting memories form? Scientists believe that while we sleep, the brain replays events from the day, transferring information from the hippocampus, where short-term memories are stored, to the ...

No matter how well or how much you sleep on the plane, once you land it’s all about beating jet lag. Plan activities on that ...