N early half of all Americans and around 40% of Britons now use a smartwatch, smart ring, phone app or another similar device to track their sleep. Are these gadgets accurate—an ...

A new treatment breakthrough at University of Utah Health is bringing relief to children with Down syndrome and sleep apnea. Families are finding new hope as kids breathe—and sleep—more easily.

By tracking eye movements in zebrafish, researchers identified four different types of sleep, analogous to the complex sleep ...

The pre, intra and postoperative planning is patient specific, can be complex, and is known as the perioperative plan.

Positional therapy can be a long-lasting and effective treatment for patients with positional obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to research presented at the 2026 ATS International Conference.

Homework, social pressure and jobs still keep teens up but now screen time and social media rob their sleep A new study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health shows that today’s ...

A comparative study, presented at ESGE Days 2026, has found that endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is associated with significantly greater short-term weight loss than oral semaglutide in adults ...

Eight hours of sleep used to be the norm, and all-nighters with only a few hours of rest were rare among teenagers. In recent years, however, there has been an alarming decline in sleep duration. It ...

Pink noise, a staticky sound that’s supposed to help people fall asleep, may actually worsen your rest, a new study found. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles ...

When study participants took an attention test while sleep-deprived, their brain scans showed signs of a sleep-like state linked to the brain’s nightly cleaning process. This could be the brain’s ...

We know that diet has a role in sleep conditions – and now it seems that dietary fibre in particular might help address them. A new systematic review of earlier studies might help plug that gap.