Sleep Disorders

Use of alertness drug modafinil takes off, spurred by untested uses

2013-05-02 13:51:00

In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...

Appeals court puts 1st Amendment over public health

2012-12-07 00:00:00

The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act makes it illegal to sell a prescription drug for any purpose other than what's listed on the label. Nevertheless, a divided federal appeals court this week tossed out the conviction of a former drug sales rep who was...

Zeo Sleep Manager, SleepTracker try to wake you when it's best

2012-05-12 00:00:00

"If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters," a wise, unnamed observer of the human condition once opined. (Some credit Garfield the cat.) Failing that, we could all sleep with gadgets that monitor our sleep and wake us at the...

Scientists find a gene that may influence short sleep times

2011-11-29 14:07:00

Witness: Conrad Murray more like employee than doctor to Jackson

2011-10-19 16:35:08

Theater review: 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes' at La Jolla Playhouse

2011-07-27 16:33:13

Sleep deprived? Your reaction to a shortage of shut-eye may be in your genes

2010-10-27 13:46:00

You and your co-worker have been burning the midnight oil for a week to complete a project, and your abbreviated sleep schedule has you feeling like a zombie. Your co-worker, by contrast, bounces through the workday looking and acting none the worse for...

Makers say CDs induce more restful sleep

2009-12-14 00:00:00

During the holiday season -- or any time, really -- solid sleep can be a real gift. The not-so-sound sleepers on your shopping list would undoubtedly appreciate anything that would help them get some needed rest. You can't exactly gift-wrap warm milk and...

Charles McPhee dies at 49; self-proclaimed 'Dream Doctor' had syndicated radio show

2011-05-15 00:00:00

Charles McPhee, the self-proclaimed "Dream Doctor" who decoded dreams on his nationally syndicated radio show until Lou Gehrig's disease forced him off the air in 2006, has died. He was 49. McPhee died May 8 at his Woodland Hills home of the...

Consumer Confidential: Airline merger, more jobless Californians, sweaty sleep

2010-09-17 16:34:40

WNBA: Diana Taurasi tests positive for modafinil, according to the Turkish basketball federation

2010-12-24 16:32:55

Sleep problems and age: Not necessarily bedmates, say sleep docs

2009-11-17 21:32:30

study. However, the psychiatrist's true motives are to study the dynamics of fear, which he believes he can simulate in the spooky space.

2013-01-11 15:26:00

Dr. Phyllis Zee is director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Sleep Disorders Center and director of Sleep Disorders Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

2012-10-29 15:51:47

Brand:Provigil Modafinil is a medication that promotes wakefulness. The drug is used to treat excessive sleepiness caused by sleep apnea , narcolepsy, or shift work sleep disorder . Modafinil is usually taken each morning to prevent daytime sleepiness, or one hour before the start of a work shift

2009-08-25 17:14:00