The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Growing more native plants in cities will increase microbial diversity and combat the rise of non-communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, South Australian researchers say In a new paper, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers from the University of Adelaide found that humans in urban populations are in […]
Discovery in Laboratory Mice Suggests Possible Role for Anti-Cancer Drugs in Treating Pulmonary Fibrosis A protein associated with cancer growth appears to drive the deadly lung disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai. The discovery, made in laboratory mice and human tissue samples, may have […]
People with Alzheimer’s disease using antiepileptic drugs have twice the risk of pneumonia compared to non-users, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The risk was highest in the beginning of use, but remained on an elevated level even in long-term use. The results were published in […]
Chinese Researchers Find Increased Risk in Large Study Population Short-term exposure to three common air pollutants may increase the risk of dying from asthma, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and […]
Using Philips PAP solutions, results resurface conversation around ASV therapy use for complex sleep apnea and its potential to improve quality of life Royal Philips announced results from a recent study, Comparison of Physiological Performance of Four Adaptive Servo Ventilation Devices in Patients with Complex Sleep Apnea in the American Journal of Respiratory […]
44% of adults surveyed globally admit their sleep has worsened in the last five years 8 in 10 adults worldwide want to improve the quality of their sleep, but the majority (60%) have not sought help from a medical professional Royal Philips announced the findings from its annual global sleep […]
Critically ill patients are more likely to be successfully weaned from a mechanical ventilator, or breathing machine, if they have higher levels of wakefulness and both their right and left brains experience the same depth of sleep, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory […]
New research involving New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai shows a link between patients with XFS and pulmonary disease. The results have been published in the February issue of Glaucoma Ophthalmology. Exfoliation syndrome is the most common recognizable cause of open-angle glaucoma worldwide. This systemic disorder is associated […]
Emerging Evidence Suggests that Sleep Quality Improves with Virta Health’s Novel Care Model and Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Virta Health, the first company with a treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes (T2D) without the use of medications or surgery, announced the publication of new peer-reviewed […]
Could sleeping on your back increase your brain’s risk of developing neurodegenerative disease? That possibility is revealed in a new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. “We compared the in-home sleep patterns of patients with memory impairment resulting from neurodegenerative diseases to a large group of elderly with normal […]
