Browsing: Sleep

For years, experts have stressed the risks of lie-ins, warning that catching up on missed sleep at the weekend can disrupt the body’s internal clock and…

Sleep that is extremely disrupted or that goes on too long could mean a loss of nine months from working life after the age of 50,…

Sleep. Exercise. Eat well. It’s the oldest recommendation in medicine, repeated so often it’s become a cliche. We know the advice, even if we don’t always…

With parts of England once again in the grip of a heatwave, an opinion poll shows the one at the end of June led to “mass…

Poor sleep may be fuelling the global rise in under-50s being diagnosed with cancer, two large studies suggest.The number of younger people diagnosed with the disease…

Sleeping for 11 minutes more each night, doing 4.5 additional minutes of brisk walking and eating an extra 50g or so of vegetables each day can…

A few decades back, people didn’t care as much about sleep. Margaret Thatcher led by example, getting only four hours a night. But over recent years,…

When Nick went camping in the summer with friends, he would set up his tent 100 metres away from the group.“It became a bit that I…

Obstructive sleep apnoea costs the US and UK economies more than £137bn ($185bn) a year, according to research.People with the serious health condition repeatedly stop breathing…

Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in Montreal’s Centre for Advanced Research in…