AHA - Post-menopausal women who regularly sleep more than nine hours a night seem to have an increased risk of ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association .
Compared to women sleeping seven hours, the risk of ischemic stroke was 60 to 70 percent higher for those sleeping nine hours or [...]

New study shows that tai chi chih promotes better sleep in older adults .
UCLA.edu - More than half of all older adults complain about having difficulties sleeping, but sleeping pills can have side effects or lead to other health problems, and behavior therapies for insomnia can be costly and often are not available close to [...]

Researchers examined the effects of green tea polyphenols (GTP), administered through drinking water, on rats who were intermittently deprived of oxygen during 12-hour “night” cycles, mimicking the intermittent hypoxia (IH) that humans with obstructive sleep apnea experience.
People with obstructive sleep apnea have been reported to have increased markers of oxidative stress and exhibit architectural [...]

Do you know if you are likely to have obstructive sleep apnea? A team of anesthesiologist researchers has developed a quick, cheap and highly accurate scoring system to identify surgical patients who may have the potentially life-threatening condition of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
The STOP questionnaire is a self-administered screening tool consisting of four simple yes/no [...]

Infants and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day are twice as likely to become overweight by age 3 than children who sleep longer. In addition, high levels of television viewing combined with less sleep elevates the risk, so that children who sleep less than 12 hours and who view two or more [...]

For patients with low back pain, sleeping on softer types of beds that conform to the body may lead to improvements in pain and sleep, reports a study in the April 1, 2008 issue of Spine.
Contrary to what many people think, sleeping on a hard mattress may actually make pain worse, according to the new [...]