Sleep

For the nearly one billion people worldwide living with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the standard of care — a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine — comes with an unglamorous reality: roughly half of patients abandon the device within a year. The mask is uncomfortable, the machine is noisy, […]

Caffeine restores social memory after sleep loss, study finds A study from the National University of Singapore shows that caffeine can specifically reverse the social memory deficits caused by sleep deprivation — by restoring communication in a targeted brain circuit rather than broadly stimulating the brain. What they found Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin […]

Sleeping too much after a breast cancer diagnosis? It might be worth a doctor’s visit A decades-long study of nurses suggests that women who sleep nine or more hours per night after a breast cancer diagnosis face a significantly higher risk of death — not because sleep is harmful, but because excessive sleep may signal […]