Sources of health information and advice are more available than ever before. In generations past, people relied on family, friends, pharmacists, and physicians. They had to be cautious about ...

Following safe sleep practices every night and for every nap can help keep your infant safe and prevent the risk of sleep-related deaths.

Change is needed to the way safer sleep information is communicated, if risks to babies from unsafe sleeping practices are to be reduced, said experts. While rates of sudden unexpected death in ...

A new study shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit ...

Taylor Leamey wrote about all things wellness for CNET, specializing in mental health, sleep and nutrition coverage. She has invested hundreds of hours into studying and researching sleep and holds a ...

Orthosomnia is a relatively new condition you've probably never heard of. Here's why fixating on your sleep data can be bad and what to do about it. Taylor Leamey wrote about all things wellness for ...

Sleep is a fundamental need, just like food or water. "You'll die without it," said Keith Hengen, an assistant professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis. But what does sleep actually ...

I still remember how, as a new parent, I would often tiptoe into my sleeping son's room multiple times a day — and night — to make sure he was still breathing. Thanks to Safe to Sleep, a public ...

Sleep trackers are devices that a person can use to help monitor their sleep. The best sleep trackers are those that track a range of metrics, including heart rate, breathing rate, and even nightly ...

Scientists have long known that sleep is important to the formation and retention of new memories. Memory consolidation is associated with sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity, called sleep ...

Despite the fact that we spend roughly a third of our lives snoozing (or at least trying to), sleep is not well understood by scientists — to say nothing of the estimated 35% of Americans who don’t ...