As scientists unravel how sleep benefits the body, a study in mice is highlighting the potential pitfalls of using Ambien and other sleeping pills.

Taken properly, sleeping pills give enormous benefit to people suffering from an inability to get restful sleep. At the same time, the rise in the use of sleep medication has been accompanied by ...

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance ...

You’ve probably heard of your body’s lymphatic system, but what about the glymphatic system? As the authors of a 2022 paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery phrased it, it’s “a fluid clearance pathway ...

Jan 09, 2025 23:00:00 The reason why sleeping pills do not lead to 'good quality sleep' has been revealed Some people who have had difficulty falling asleep and have resorted to sleeping pills may ...

Instead of reaching for a pill, more people should switch to the recommended "first line" treatment for insomnia—the non-drug ...

Most adult Brits struggle to get a good night’s sleep in ― 14% of us get by on “dangerously low” levels of sleep, regularly ...

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Now, new research shows that a common prescription sleep aid can disrupt this essential process. In 2012, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC ...

Official medical records showed doctors issued more than 800,000 prescriptions for drugs called hypnotics – sleeping tablets and liquid medicine – to under-16s. This included almost 80,000 to ...

Sleeping pills may impact the brain’s ability to ‘cleanse’ itself during sleep, new research suggests. A study, which looked into what happens in mice when the brain sleeps, found that ...