Trying to sleep on a plane? Melatonin has some properties that may help, but they can work against you too. Medical and sleep ...

When it starts to get dark as the sun sets, a tiny gland in your brain called the pineal gland gets to work ramping up the production of sleep-inducing melatonin. The levels of this hormone stay ...

Melatonin is easily the most popular over-the-counter sleep aid out there. Like many other folks, I've tried it, hoping for better sleep, but the results weren't what I expected. Every time I ...

Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around ...