What is a sleep study? A sleep study, also known as a polysomnogram, is a diagnostic test that monitors various body functions while a person is asleep. It is most commonly used to diagnose sleep ...

Study demonstrates comparable performance between wireless, patch-based Onera Sleep Test System and in-lab polysomnography for sleep staging and respiratory event detection. EINDHOVEN, ...

Sleep apnea is a serious condition, causing breathing to stop and start several times during sleep. The most common form of the condition is obstructive sleep apnea, where the throat narrows, blocking ...

Restricting sleep to 4 hours a night for 5 consecutive nights led to more weight gain for sleep-restricted participants than for control participants, according to results from a large, diverse, ...

Sleep trackers promise to turn the mystery of the night into clean numbers and colorful charts. Yet as the devices have ...

Forger takes a more favorable view toward the devices, which he says help keep the overlooked importance of sleep front of ...

The results of this study provide further clinical evidence that patient-applied, patch-based PSG is a viable alternative to in-lab PSG, enabling broader access to gold-standard sleep testing.

A new study published in the journal Health Data Science has shown that having poor sleep habits is linked to dozens of diseases, including heart disease, liver cirrhosis, dementia, and gangrene. The ...

Teenagers who get poor sleep are more likely to harm themselves on purpose, a new study says. Shorter sleep, going to sleep later and frequent waking during the night all were significantly associated ...