To know whether you have narcolepsy, it's important to recognize a few common symptoms, such as excessive daytime sleepiness. Here's how.

That overwhelming sleepiness dragging you down might not just be from staying up too late scrolling through TikTok. While everyone occasionally battles the afternoon slump, people with hypersomnia or ...

While the study only involved narcolepsy type 1, previous work has shown that orexin signaling may be deficient in other ...

There's a saying that goes "Sleeping medicine". Sufficient sleep is especially important for adolescents who are in the midst ...

Jay Cook, 24, was in high school when she started to experience sudden bouts of sleepiness. "I was taking community college classes, and I'd drive 20 minutes away to the community college and come ...

When Katelynn O’Connell takes her lunch break at work, she follows a routine that sets her apart from other employees. Each day at noon, she unfolds a cot in her small office, turns on a white noise ...

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Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. A race to develop a new ...

Narcolepsy was linked to high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes on top of outright cardiovascular disease events in a retrospective cohort study. Notably, patients with narcolepsy started ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Extended-release sodium oxybate (Lumryz) taken once before bedtime was preferred by patients with narcolepsy over twice-nightly dosing and was generally well tolerated, according to ...