Sleep needs vary significantly across life stages, from 12-16 hours for infants to 7-9 hours for adults. Young children ...

Short sleeper syndrome is a condition that allows some people to operate on less than six hours of sleep and feel completely fine during the day.

Less than 15% of kids are getting enough shut-eye, new research shows. But most of their parents think they do.

Think six hours of sleep is no big deal? You’re accelerating the breakdown of your body like hitting fast-forward on a machine already overheating. Trading eight hours of sleep for six accelerates ...

Researchers at Brown University found that many Rhode Island kids sleep less than their parents realize, with Latino children ...

Studies point to BP as a mediating factor in the relationship between sleep and CV health, with certain sleep patterns tied to hypertension.

A lack of sleep can have many harmful health effects, both in the short-term and long-term. Here's what you should know.

Bacterial fragments called peptidoglycans may influence daily sleep patterns and also affect the brain health cycle strongly.

Sleeping for 7 to 9 hours at night isn't the only way to catch some z's. Here are four alternative sleep cycles -- and they're pretty obscure. Lara Vukelich Lara Vukelich is a freelance writer in San ...

Recently, a report on the airline industry that was kept "secret" for many years has surfaced and it's not pretty. To bottom line it: Air traffic controllers (you know, the men and women who are ...

Risk for clinical depression is increased in patients with cardiovascular disease that have insufficient sleep. Insufficient sleep is associated with risk for clinical depression in patients with ...