sleep

Daylight saving time, when clocks are set forward an hour, begins on Sunday, March 13, at 2 a.m. For many people, the additional hour of sunlight means a chance to work in the garden, fire up the grill for dinner and not have to worry about toiling away in the darkness, or simply completing the evening commute before nightfall. For some, however, it means starting the day in darkness -- and an hour less sleep.

Two federal agencies today issued a warning to parents to stop using infant sleep positioners - marketed as safety devices - following the deaths of 12 infants. They want consumers to stop using them, companies to stop marketing them and retailers to stop selling them. The U.S. Consumer Product...

By marketing his $19.95 RealSleep CD, Seth Horowitz just got in bed with the $20 billion insomnia-cure industry. He told WalletPop that the low-frequency sounds he embedded in soothing classical music with composer Lance Massey can simulate the brain messages we get when we nod off in a car. "No...

Perhaps your boss is a screamer. Or maybe he gets off on saying he should never, ever have hired you. Maybe it's your coworker who's always blabbing to other colleagues about the mistakes you've supposedly made on the job. If any of these situations sound familiar, you're probably dealing with a...

I'm a clean guy. I shower daily, shave every other day, change my sheets regularly, and am careful to straighten up the house before it becomes a breeding ground for disease and vermin. In other words, while I'm not Howard Hughes, I take personal hygiene very seriously. Consequently, when I began...

Blogger "The Happy Rock" did an interesting post on how sleep is an integral part of being more responsible with your money. I had never really thought about this, but his ideas make sense! The gist of his article is that when you're tired, you're more likely to spend extra money on "convenience"...

The American worker has a vicious cycle going: Stay late at the office, bring work home, sleep less at night, fall asleep at work, stay late at the office ... you get the picture. It's a cycle experts say is costing U.S. employers tens of billions of dollars a year in lost productivity. The...