Sleep problems are common enough, but consultant neurologist and Goodnight Britain presenter Dr Kirstie Anderson has created a Good Sleep Guide, showing just how you can stop them spoiling your life…
One thing Dr Anderson advises is resetting your body clock. As the Radio Times reported, scientists have identified a photoreceptor within the eye that helps to set your body clock by responding to sunlight. Therefore, it is not just important that you get enough sleep, the time you sleep is impor...
Sleep clinics are seeing more patients who are suffering from sleep disorders than ever before, and they are getting up to some interesting night time activities when they should be sound asleep in their storage beds.
The Mental Health Foundation has revealed that over 30 per cent of the UK’s population suffers from insomnia or some other sleep disorder at the moment.
Specialist clinics are receiving up to 50 new referrals each week, BBC News Magazine reported. This represents a fivefold incre...
Despite concern, children in the US seem to be getting enough sleep, a new study shows.
According to University of California graduate Jessica Williams, who lead her colleagues in the study, babies of two years and under slept for an average of 12 to 14 hours in each 24-hour period.
By the age of four, the kids slept for 11 hours and once they reached age ten, their sleep time dropped to ten hours. Children aged 16 got an average of nine hours sleep per night.
Ms Williams told Reuters Health: "W...
Patients who require posture management during the day often lack the support they need at night, two entrepreneurs believe.
To address this issue, James Leinhardt and Anthony Mitchell have invested £50,000 to create a ‘sleep system’ which is designed for people with mobility problems to use during sleep to maintain correct posture.
Posture Care, the company created by the pair, sells the Hugga for adults and the Snugga for children. Both products are formed of a system of straps and pads t...
Since her split from husband Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes’s life has received a lot of press coverage, but it seems Ms Holmes is not entirely comfortable with her celebrity status, in fact it’s given her cause to lose sleep.
In an interview with the New York Times, the actress said: “You can easily fall into thinking, ‘Wow, I’m really something,’ but I believe in putting your head down and doing the work.”
This view is perhaps most prominent in her thoughts about her recent performanc...
Each hour we lose to insomnia costs us one IQ point the next day, a study by the University of British Columbia indicates.
Perhaps this would not be such a worrying statement if a quarter of British people with insomnia hadn’t been suffering with it for over ten years.
Evidence gathered by the Great British Sleep Survey concurs that the effects of insomnia are far reaching, affecting many areas of people’s lives. Of the over 20,000 adults studied between March and June 2010, low energy level...
Ever woken up on a train to find your head is on an annoyed-looking stranger’s shoulder? Well, this embarrassing commuter blunder could be a thing of the past, if a new contraption catches on.
The UpRight Sleeper is a frame that resembles a neck brace, but it is adjustable so you can choose to use it to support your chin or forehead. Designed to fit all head sizes, the invention is intended to stop the head lolling if the sandman gets you when you’re away from your storage bed!
The £25 gadg...
You may have read all about how getting enough sleep can help you maintain a healthy weight, but scientists in the US have found that it works the other way round, too.
Losing weight, particularly from the area around your waist, can win you a significantly better night's sleep in your storage bed, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University in America have discovered. By reducing their waistline by around 15 per cent and losing about a stone from their body weight, people can enjoy a ma...
