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Amanda Gardner — Blood levels from nighttime dose of sleep aid can remain too high the next morning, agency says.

Robert Preidt — Large U.S study also found greater odds of home health care use in people with sleep problem.

Robert Preidt — Men least likely to nod off were most likely to have severe disease, researchers found.

Mary Elizabeth Dallas — Adverse reactions to popular sleep meds rose almost 220 percent between 2005 and 2010, study finds.

Robert Preidt — Fewer awakenings seen among white, non-obese women who kept active with caregiving, chores.

Risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea — the sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts — run the gamut, from smoking and high blood pressure, to the most common, high body mass index (BMI). But a recent study by researchers at Wayne State University School of Medicine reveals…

Randy Dotinga — Researcher calls troubled sleep an 'uncalculated cost' of America's weight epidemic.

Robert Preidt — Problem often goes hand-in-hand with emotional disorders like depression, expert says.

Diana Kohnle — Often, it's fear of the dark

Mary Elizabeth Dallas — Motorists with sleep apnea were more likely to nod off at the wheel, fail simulated road tests.