Archive for March 2017

Friday, March 17th is World Sleep Day. It’s a good day to think about your sleep habits, and what you can do to improve them. Huffington Post has commemorated the occasion with advice from sleep specialist Dr Frédérique Aussert. We found this to be particularly interesting: There are a few other things you can try to…

The amount of sleep people get across the US varies. The other day we shared a Bing study which tracked the average amount of sleep in major US cities based on mobile device use. Here’s some global data, this time based on Twitter. Hundreds of thousands of people tweet about their insomnia each day, and…

It was Frank Sinatra who once famously sang that he wanted to wake up in the city that never sleeps. And while we seldom look to mid 20th century jazz songs for statistical accuracy, we were curious if people actually slept less in New York City.  The smart people behind the Bing search engine have answered…

The Reuters Health article titled Never Feel Bad About Sleeping In On The Weekend Again caught our eye. It’s been known that a persistent lack of sleep can increase risk factors for diabetes, but in a recent study, researchers found that sleeping in a couple of mornings after four nights of sleep deprivation can reverse some of…

Joseph Krainin, M.D., FAASM is board-certified in sleep medicine and neurology and is the founder of Singular Sleep, a sleep telemedicine practice. Singular Sleep is an authorized reseller of ASTI products. One of the great things about CPAP is that it eliminates all the terrible sleep breathing noises that sleep apnea sufferers emit: snoring, gasping,…

An article from UK news publication, The Daily Mirror recently cited a survey which states that an astonishing 38% of British couples sleep in separate beds. Although the study was based in the UK, anyone, anywhere in the world may find similar challenges that keep them from sleeping in the same bed. The top reasons mentioned are snoring, a partner hogging…