It also helps to have a healthy immune system and fight off disease.” Using a Star Wars analogy to further illustrate the point, Dr. Woodruff compares sleep to when Luke Skywalker returns to base.

Dr. Kyran Quinlan and colleagues at Rush issue an urgent call for prevention strategies for sleep-related infant deaths in his viewpoint, "Protecting Infants From Sleep-Related Deaths" published ...

Not getting enough sleep does not directly make you sick, but it doesn’t help your immune system’s chances of preventing an infection, according to W. Christopher Winter, MD, a neurologist and ...

Your sleep system is like a watercooler. “Listen,” you might be saying, “this is all very well and good, but my problem is that I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep.