Sleep health, insomnia and sleeping pills.
A study of 392 older adults in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, published Sept. 29, 2026, in Sleep Advances, found that strong grogginess after waking, called sleep inertia, was linked to higher odds…
In an experiment published Oct. 24, 2026, in Sleep, thirty healthy adults did a computer task once rested and once after a night without sleep. Sleep loss made them slower and less…
In a study of 4,368 adults referred for sleep testing, published Oct. 28, 2026, in Sleep, cardiovascular deaths over a median 8.6 years were driven mainly by age, smoking, high blood pressure,…
A meta-analysis of thirteen studies found that people with obstructive sleep apnea had higher total amyloid and tau in blood and lower amyloid in spinal fluid than people without it, but certainty…
A study of 735 people across the Alzheimer's spectrum, published in October 2026 in Alzheimer's & Dementia, found that the link between shorter sleep and more white matter damage was stronger when…
In a study of 422 young Australians with emerging mood disorders, published Oct. 29, 2026, in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, depressive symptoms peaked in winter and were linked to less physical…
A study of 2,000 US adults published Oct. 29, 2026, in Sleep validated Ru-SATED 4.0, a six-question scale that rates sleep regularity, satisfaction, alertness, timing, efficiency and duration. Scores differed clearly between…
In two phase 3 trials published Oct. 21, 2026, in the New England Journal of Medicine, retatrutide reduced breathing pauses during sleep by up to 34.3 events per hour at 80 weeks…
A study of sixty-four cognitively healthy older adults, published in October 2026 in Alzheimer's & Dementia, found that a low share of REM sleep was linked to a faster drop in a…
In a study of 481,857 adults who had overnight sleep studies, published Oct. 15, 2026, in Sleep, periodic leg movements during sleep were linked to depression, insomnia, high blood sugar and anemia,…
A study of 4,162 US adults, published Oct. 7, 2026, in Frontiers in Public Health, found that waking three or more times a night to urinate was linked to higher odds of…
A review published Oct. 28, 2026, in the Journal of Biological Rhythms found that in Arctic and Antarctic regions, status epilepticus rose as summer days lengthened, and both extreme light and extreme…
A Cochrane review published Oct. 13, 2026, of nine trials with 537 adults found that medical cannabis may have little to no meaningful effect on sleep quality or total sleep time in…
In a study published Oct. 29, 2026, in Chronobiology International, first-year medical students with strong social jetlag who were assigned classes starting at 10:00 a.m. slept longer, had steadier daily rhythms and…
A genetic study of UK Biobank data published Oct. 14, 2026, in Sleep found 125 genetic regions shared by insomnia and the inflammation marker CRP, and stronger evidence that insomnia leads to…
A meta-analysis of 20 studies with 11 681 adults, published Oct. 27, 2026, in Chronobiology International, found that morning affect was linked to better mental health and big daily swings in alertness…
In a study published Oct. 9, 2026, in Sleep, a neural network reading the single-lead ECG recorded during overnight sleep studies predicted 10-year risk of atrial fibrillation, heart failure, stroke and death,…
