The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Friday, October 9, 2026
Sleep is food for the brain – especially for teens. It’s hard being a teen in today’s fast-paced world. And it’s even harder to reach your goals when you’re feeling tired and run-down. Between early school start times, social media, electronic devices, extracurricular activities, and late-night homework—teens are at the highest […]
By Dana Brown When you have a job that requires you to work into the wee hours of the night, you have to make some major adjustments for sleeping. Research has shown that sleep deprivation can result in social isolation, loneliness and a number of other adverse health conditions. Therefore, […]
Innovations in Narcolepsy Awareness Join Project Sleep in Boston for Innovations in Narcolepsy Awareness, a unique one-day event and interactive workshop to empower advocates and advance novel approaches to educating the public about narcolepsy. The meeting will take place on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m […]
More than 4 in 10 women with asthma may go on to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study conducted in Ontario, Canada, and published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. In “Asthma and COPD Overlap in Women: Incidence and Risk Factors,” Teresa To, […]
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ORKAMBI® (lumacaftor/ivacaftor) to include use in children ages 2 through 5 years with cystic fibrosis (CF) who have two copies of the F508del-CFTR mutation, making it the first medicine approved to treat the underlying cause of CF […]
By Alicia Sanchez Lack of sleep plays an important role in appetite control and metabolism. While getting a good seven to nine hours of sleep can be difficult for anyone, those who work swing or night shifts are in the challenging position of working against the body’s circadian rhythms. Working […]
By Kaye Prather Whether you’re a respiratory therapist working in acute care, home health, outpatient pulmonary function, pulmonary rehab, research or sleep studies our patients ask us about their medications. Respiratory medications seem to be the most confusing and often missed in their daily routines. We don’t like to use […]
New Data Also Reveals Some Surprising Differences in How Americans Sleep Based on Gender and Geography New internal data from Sleep Cycle, the best-selling alarm clock application, reveals how seasons affect our shut-eye. It turns out that even though most Americans like a cold sleeping environment, they do their best sleeping […]
Foothill Regional Medical Center in Tustin houses one of only eight pediatric subacute programs in California and the only hospital-based program serving Orange County. Five-year-old Junior Reyes is one of the program’s patients. He was born with a rare neurological condition that affects all his muscles, including his breathing. His […]
Early intervention to treat a sleep disorder may help prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) today issued a health advisory warning of the significant role insufficient or poor sleep may have on the development of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia and […]
