Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older women with increasing daytime sleepiness had roughly double the risk for dementia vs. those with stable ...

Sleep is important for everyone – but do women require more than men? This has been an ongoing discussion among researchers and medical experts, as they weigh the various biological factors that come ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. While women are said to sleep a bit longer than men, their sleep ...

Increasing sleepiness over 5 years doubled dementia risk among cognitively unimpaired women in their 80s. Sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset, and nap duration and frequency were individually ...

It turns out there might be a scientific reason behind women needing extra “beauty sleep.” Studies show, on average, women require about 11 minutes more sleep per night than men do. Although this ...

Females sleep less, wake up more often and get less restorative sleep than males, according to a new animal study by CU Boulder researchers. The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, ...

Women experience disruptions in their sleep patterns and report heightened feelings of anger in the days leading up to their period, according to new research. The study sheds new light on the ...

People who sleep less than 7 hours per night are at increased risk for hypertension, especially women, according to a new meta-analysis. Sleeping for less than 5 hours upped this risk even further.