Sleep

Students who have trouble remembering their class materials should consider getting a few extra hours of sleep every night.

Too little or too much sleep can lead to inflammatory illnesses.

Once you enter pharmacy school, you'll quickly learn that being professional is essential.

New technology is making it easier for researchers to collect data on sleep patterns for large populations, including college students across the country.

Pharmacists in states with the highest incidence of smoking, excessive drinking, insufficient sleep, physical inactivity, and obesity should make a point to discourage all patients from partaking in unhealthy habits.

Three studies published last year provide useful information on risk factors for colds, which affect adults 2 to 3 times a year.

Insomnia is characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep, or early morning awakening with inability to resume sleep.

The following types of medications can be used for sleep disorders.

The best way to reduce health care spending is to teach patients how to optimize their health and slow the aging process.

Those who do not get enough sleep could be more susceptible to catching the common cold.

Many sleepwalkers who injure themselves during their sleep do not experience pain until the next morning, which may lead them to the pharmacy for OTC pain relief.

Side effects may vary, and occasionally take an odd turn.

Although respiratory sleep disorders occur in up to half of all congestive heart failure (CHF) cases, they remain underdiagnosed in CHF.

What is the No. 1 disorder seen among deployed soldiers?

This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

The FDA has approved Merck's Belsomra (suvorexant), a Schedule IV substance, for the treatment of insomnia, as characterized by difficulties with sleep onset and/or sleep maintenance.

Elevating the upper bodies of women who recently gave birth may help improve their respiratory safety.

Showing gratitude may provide physical benefits to heart failure (HF) patients.

Targeted counseling for patients taking zolpidem (Ambien) might be synonymous with saving lives.

Students pulling frequent all-nighters, beware. A new book on sleep suggests that sleep loss is associated with amplified emotional responses.

According to new research, stomach sleepers with epilepsy may be at higher risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.

As Homer's hero, Odysseus, once advised, "There is a time for many words, and there is a time for sleep."

Improvements in nutrition, exercise, stress, and sleep may help patients with prediabetes reduce their risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes.

Students who pull all-nighters may want a refresher on how much sleep they should be getting each night.

A new study explores what makes people get out of bed each day and what effect work has on sleep schedules.