About one-third of adults worldwide say they sometimes struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep. If you’re one of them, you may have tried sleep medications to find temporary tranquility. There is a ...

Flying across time zones? Anxious and uncomfortable while doing so? We asked medical experts the pros and cons of five different sleeping aids. That’s when sleeping pills and supplements can help. For ...

Nan Bishko Iwasaki, 81, a retired commercial artist who lives in Redondo Beach, California, has been taking a variety of sleeping pills for 22 years. She worries about their side effects, especially ...

On the contrary, there is excellent evidence for exercise improving virtually every measure of sleep we know of, including sleep initiation/insomnia. Though people's mileage does vary on how closely ...

Every once in a while, a story about a bizarre pharmaceutical side effect races through the media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping ...

Sleeping pills may interfere with the brain's overnight cleaning system, new research in mice suggests. Like cells everywhere ...

One of adulthood’s quiet regrets is not sleeping more when we had the chance. Yet sleep seems to get even more elusive with ...

A strategy developed by Canadian researchers for encouraging older patients with insomnia to wean themselves from sleeping pills and improve their sleep through behavioral techniques is effective, ...