Does extending your sleep in the week prior to an upcoming period of sleep deprivation work to keep you more alert?

Busy week have you catching up on sleep during the weekend? That may be good for your heart health, according to new research. In a study set to be presented at the European Society of Cardiology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say it's better to get a good night's sleep consistently rather than playing catch-up on weekends. (Getty Images) (Adene ...

The key to keeping your wits about you as you age may lie in shut-eye during midlife. A study found that people over 60 who didn’t get enough slow-wave sleep — the third stage in the human sleep cycle ...

Columnist Ben Hofmeister has just completed his third overnight sleep study in three years as part of an effort to control sleep apnea.

Modern lifestyles mean many people are sleep deprived on work or school days, and try to 'catch-up' with compensatory sleep on weekends. A new study of more than 90,000 individuals showed that those ...