Anyone can have trouble maintaining sleep cycles, but older adults are far more likely to have difficulty sleeping than younger adults. Often this will simply result in them taking daytime naps or ...

A study published in 2023 found that using sleeping pills to get some shut-eye could reduce the buildup of toxic clumps of ...

About one-third of adults worldwide say they sometimes struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep. If you’re one of them, you may have tried sleep medications to find temporary tranquility. There is a ...

One of adulthood’s quiet regrets is not sleeping more when we had the chance. Yet sleep seems to get even more elusive with ...

A new study in The Lancet reveals that giving up sleeping pills can reduce fall risks, slow cognitive decline, and increase life expectancy among older adults.

A recent study revealed that middle-aged and elderly individuals could age more gracefully and save maximum money by discontinuing prescribed sleep medications.According to research published in The ...

A strategy developed by Canadian researchers for encouraging older patients with insomnia to wean themselves from sleeping pills and improve their sleep through behavioral techniques is effective, ...

Avoiding sleep drugs would reduce older Americans' lifetime rate of falls by nearly 9% and brain decline by 2%, among other ...

So many of us struggle to fall asleep and stay there through the night. About a third of U.S. adults aren’t sleeping enough. Teenagers’ sleep is even worse; 8 in 10 teens are sleep deprived. Our ...

Sleeping pills might help you doze off, but the sleep you get may not be as restorative. When mice were given zolpidem, a medication commonly found in sleeping pills such as Ambien, it prevented their ...

Our bodies rely on their lymphatic system to drain excessive fluids and remove waste from tissues, feeding those back into the blood stream. It’s a complex yet efficient cleaning mechanism that works ...