Sleep Info

It is common knowledge that sleep is hard to come by if you’re staying overnight at a hospital. But, a new study shows just how bad the problem can be. According to the World Health Organization, the noise level in hospital rooms should not go above 30 to 40 decibels. However, a new study conducted…
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Oversleeping is inevitable.  It happens to everyone.  Sometimes it leads to a boss being upset, and sometimes you get away with it.  It’s so common, in fact, that it was recently named as one of the top reasons for work tardiness. According to a new CareerBuilder study. Sixteen percent of workers reported they arrive late…
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Have you visited the SleepBetter Facebook Page recently? If you haven’t, you’ll find that there are a lot more people there than just a few short weeks ago.  This past weekend we crossed a social media tipping point by eclipsing 100,000 fans.  More than 35,000 people have “liked” the page since our largest Facebook contest…
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Falling asleep while driving has been a growing problem for some time now, and there have been many gadgets designed to remedy this problem, but a new one from Japan is novel to say the least.  The company, Juki, has designed a device that goes over the driver’s side seat to help the driver to stay awake…
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A recent study is flying in the face of logic by suggesting that technologies such as smartphones and tablet computers are not keeping us up at night.  Tesearchers at the University of Sidney in Australia compared the average hours of sleep for people between the years 1992 and 2006. After looking over all of the data,…
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A new study has found that there may be some truth to the old excuse for grumpiness of waking up on the wrong side of the bed. The research included 3,000 people residing in the U.K. In the end, the study revealed that those people who sleep to the left of their husband or wife are more…
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New research indicates that the police officer you see parked in the median may be thinking about more than speeders — he or she may be thinking about sleep. The new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 40-percent of police officers screened positive for some type of sleep disorder….
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Many of us are getting over our holiday food hangovers this week, but more and more scientists are looking at how food impacts sleep. According to a new article from Wired Science, orexin, a chemical secreted in the hypothalamus, can be effected by the foods that we take in resulting in either a tired or…
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Insomnia is a growing problem, but a new study reveals that this sleep problem is affecting one group of people more than others. Multiple recent studies have found that African Americans sleep fewer hours, wake up more times in the middle of the night, and are more likely to take some sort of sleep aid….
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The popularity of Facebook, Twitter, and accessibility of smartphones have made socializing and reaching out to one another easier than ever, but are they keeping sleep out of reach? More than half of the respondents in a recent study, commissioned by a U.K.-based Internet provider, admit to  having ‘e-anxiety’. As a result, they’re staying up later because…
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