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Sleep quality
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Tonsil surgery helped snoring children, but not predictably
A SLEEP analysis of 363 children in a randomized trial found 65% improved after early tonsil surgery versus 39% who waited, yet almost nothing measured beforehand predicted who would benefit.
Jul 26, 2026
Sleep of 7 hours tracked 30% lower death risk by watch and 14% by self-report
Everyone is told to get seven hours, advice built from questionnaires. Following 76,811 UK adults who both wore a tracker and estimated their own sleep, the healthiest amount and the size of the benefit each shifted with the method.
Jul 25, 2026
Bedtime procrastination cost students 1.4 hours of sleep
Researchers wired a residential college with Bluetooth beacons and sleep watches for two weeks and found students who delayed bedtime to socialize slept 1.4 hours less and felt worse the next day.
Jul 25, 2026
Fecal transplant protocol improved sleep in chronic insomnia
In a trial of 80 adults with chronic insomnia, a gut-bacteria protocol beat placebo for sleep quality. It also included antibiotics, so the trial cannot say a stool transplant alone did it.
Jul 24, 2026