People with severe sleep apnea may struggle for breath all through the night, not breathing for as long as ninety seconds at a time during their sleep. This syndrome, which affects at least four perce
Most of us take sleep for granted, except of course on those long nights when it refuses to come. But for Peretz Lavie, head of the Sleep Laboratory at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in H
Sleep medicine has rapidly developed as a new subspecialty. Patients with sleep disorders are frequently among the most difficult to treat, and recent evidence indicates that sleep apnea can be a majo
