According to the latest numbers, roughly 9 million Americans — 4% of U.S. adults — use prescription sleep aids, or medications that can help with insomnia and other sleep issues. And now, some of the ...

(WTHR) – The Food and Drug Administration is strengthening the warnings on some of their most popularly used sleeping pills. Sleeping pills under the names Lunesta, Sonata and Ambien, as well as three ...

Flying across time zones? Anxious and uncomfortable while doing so? We asked medical experts the pros and cons of five different sleeping aids. If noise-canceling headphones don’t help you doze off, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The FDA is requiring new “black-box” warnings for some commonly used sleep aids. CNN reported that sleeping pills marketed under the names Lunesta, Sonata and Ambien will ...

U.S. drug regulators added a strict new warning about prescription sleeping pills like Lunesta and Ambien, after side effects were found to sometimes lead to tragic injuries or even deaths. The Food ...

The FDA just approved a new sleeping pill – the second in a class that works by a novel mechanism – a dual orexin receptor antagonist. The first was Merck's Belsomra, which was approved by the FDA in ...

If you find it increasingly difficult to sleep as you age, you’re not alone. According to the CDC, 11.9 percent of adult ...

About 4 percent of Americans use prescription sleep aids, with the drug being more commonly used among women and older adults, a new report from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) ...

Many people think of melatonin as a natural nod-off aid, kind of like chamomile tea in pill form. Even the name of the popular dietary supplement sounds sleepy — that long “o” sound almost makes you ...

Sleepwalking, sleep-driving, and sleep-using-a-stove are not things that you want to do. Therefore, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that eszopiclone, zaleplon, and zolpidem ...