Here's some news of workers sleeping on the job that's downright scary. A news investigation produced this story and footage of air traffic controllers at Westchester County Airport sleeping during ...

Do you snore loudly, frequently awaken in the middle of the night snorting or choking for air, have headaches in the morning or feel tired throughout the day? If so, these are indicators that you may ...

Nighttime noise from nearby road traffic, passing trains and overhead planes disturbs sleep and impairs morning performance, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 8, ...

A federal safety board has finalized a report blaming undiagnosed sleep apnea and poor traffic management on a deadly bus crash in California last year. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ...

Lack of sleep can make doing almost everything we need to do much more difficult. Trying to do a job while sleep deprived often leads to poor job performance, something we all want to avoid. This can ...

The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution in ...

Being stuck in traffic can be extremely frustrating, but for commuters, it has more marked negative effects, new research has shown. Polling agency Walnut Unlimited conducted a study on behalf of ...

Public siestas by high-profile figures suggest sleep-deprivation. April 15, 2011— -- On the same day that Vice President Joe Biden nodded off during President Obama's debt reduction speech, a ...

Mean reaction time on a morning psychomotor vigilance task slowed significantly by 3.6 ms after exposure to recorded traffic noise during sleep, and slowed reactions were directly and significantly ...