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Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

One in seven strokes happens at night, and sufferers may not get medicine that could prevent brain damage, suggests a new study.

The best solution to the problem of sleepy air traffic controllers is more sleeping on the job, scientists say....

A study of more than 300 children, ages 4-10, in a medical journal finds that as shut-eye drops, BMI goes up.

Sleeping with your pets can make you sick.

Loud snoring may do more than irritate your spouse: It can signal sleep apnea, depriving you of enough zzzz's to trigger a car crash, even a heart attack....

A northwestern Ohio school board is firing a longtime teacher after an investigation concluded she slept in class and repeatedly arrived late.

Outgoing people appear to suffer worse from the effects of lack of sleep, US Army researchers suggest.

You already know that pregnancy pains and hot flashes can keep you tossing and turning at night. But there's a host of other, less-heralded health concerns that may be silently interfering with your shut-eye. Here's how to deal with these stealth sleep stealers, decade by decade.

Sleep positioners marketed with the promise of helping babies sleep safely are too dangerous to use and should not be sold, U.S. officials warned on Wednesday.