In many parts of the country, children and their parents face months-long wait times for sleep tests at labs. With obesity rising among the pediatric population, at-home sleep tests to assess sleep ...

The old advice to simply get eight hours misses a bigger picture, researchers say. New studies reveal that timing, ...

Between jobs, school, kids, and other physical and mental tolls on our time and energy, we could all use better, more restful sleep. There’s no question that good shut-eye is important for our health.

Rachel Carlson (she/her) is a production assistant at Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. She gets to do a bit of everything: researching, sourcing, writing, fact-checking and cutting episodes. Rebecca ...

Poor sleep habits have a ripple effect on many aspects of kids’ health — and a new study has revealed that blood pressure is one of them. A report published in the journal Pediatrics this week said ...

Investigators based at Monash Children's Hospital and Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne report that a once-daily intranasal saline spray resolved obstructive sleep-disordered breathing symptoms in ...

The widespread use of digital screens in early childhood raises growing concerns about the impact of blue light on sleep quality, cognitive development, and physiological stress responses in toddlers ...

Turns out, that strict 9 p.m. bedtime was ahead of its time.