Certain kinds of sleep may be able to lower insulin resistance and diabetes risk, new research suggests. But other kinds of sleep may be detrimental.

A new study of more than 120,000 high school students found that many teenagers are not getting the recommended amount of ...

A recent study has found that 7 hours and 18 minutes may be the optimal amount of sleep you need each night to lower your ...

Study in the British Medical Journal looks at metabolic health of 23,000 participants and how our blood sugar is impacted by sleep ...

A new study points to the importance of getting answers about why you can’t sleep.

Atrial fibrillation is the most common form of heart rhythm disorder and is linked to serious complications, including stroke ...

Sleep has been shown to have a long list of physical and mental health benefits, and now a new study suggests it could also help to "erase" bad memories. That’s according to researchers from the ...

As humans grow older, their emotional stability and sleep patterns can change significantly. For instance, some past studies ...

Can what you eat affect the way you sleep or the types of dreams you have? A recent study asked just that. In the study, published Monday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, 40.2% of participants ...

The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new ...

The soothing sounds of pink noise, designed to obscure outside clamor and lull listeners into sleep, may not be so innocuous, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, with ...