A new study in mice suggests that sleeping pills may impede the brain's ability to "cleanse" itself during sleep.

Reaching for the first sleep aid you find when insomnia hits? Not all sleeping pills are the same. Each class of sleep aid works a bit differently from the other, and side effects vary. It's ...

TV commercials promise a good night's rest that's as close as the medicine cabinet, and millions take over-the-counter and prescription aids to help them sleep. Taken properly, sleeping pills give ...

We look at herbal sleep ... drugs. I'd much rather do it naturally.' users should avoid alcohol and not operate machinery. Although not addictive in the same ways as prescription sleeping pills ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

Sleeping pills might help you doze off ... a sleep medication commonly sold under the brand names Ambien and Zolpimist. While the mice fell asleep faster than those treated with a placebo ...

to name a few–but they’re all aimed at promoting sleep. Despite the harmless appearance of sleeping pills, studies have shown that the long-term use of these drugs can cause serious side ...

A study from Washington University in St. Louis found taking suvorexant, a common insomnia medication, for two nights ...

When the researchers gave mice a common sleeping pill called zolpidem, which is often sold under the brand name Ambien, the drug inhibited the release of norepinephrine by 50% compared with mice ...

Promoting sleep could be one avenue to stave off Alzheimer's disease. (Motortion/Canva) A group of volunteers aged 45 to 65 years old received one of two doses of suvorexant or a placebo pill ...