Research, published in the journal Sleep Medicine, investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the sleep of workers in essential occupations, including those who worked in health care, government, and education.
A study led by Sarah Chellappa, a neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, looks at how careful meal timing can mitigate some of the ill health outcomes of shift work.
Manufacturing Business Technology: Indira Gurubhagavatula, MD, MPH, discusses how employers and workers can cooperate to ensure ideal sleep.
Pivotal trial results of Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ Hetlioz (tasimelteon) related to patient entrainment are published in the August issue of The Lancet. The trial results are from the SET (Safety and Efficacy of Tasimelteon)...
Though more research still needs to be done, these discoveries could someday be used to help prevent and treat cancer in night shift workers.
NBA teams may be better off boarding a plane for the next city immediately after their previous game ends—as opposed to staying overnight.
In time, scientists' growing understanding of the genetic underpinnings of delayed sleep phase and other circadian disorders could pave the way to novel therapeutics.
Geriatric populations are simultaneously more likely to have insomnia and less likely to tell their medical team about it.