People with certain types of long-term sleep disorders may use a medicine called sodium oxybate to help treat their condition. This medicine is taken at night and may help people with narcolepsy to ...

Brendon Yee, PhD, professor and respiratory and sleep physician, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, discusses the success of ALKS 2680, an investigational oral selective orexin 2 receptor agonist ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with narcolepsy were more than twice as likely as matched controls to have chronic pain. Additional ...

Use of sodium oxybate and low-sodium oxybate led to meaningful improvements in patients with hypersomnia and narcolepsy regardless of comorbidities. Both hypersomnia and narcolepsy can be treated ...

HOUSTON — Narcolepsy is associated with a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and major adverse cardiac events (MACEs), independent of common comorbid conditions and ...

Risk for cardiovascular disease was significantly increased in patients with narcolepsy, highlighting the importance of routine screening in this population. Patients with narcolepsy have a ...

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Two new studies to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting show that narcolepsy is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and adverse cardiac events. Results show that people who ...

Narcolepsy was linked to high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes on top of outright cardiovascular disease events in a retrospective cohort study. Notably, patients with narcolepsy started ...

Narcolepsy affects how you sleep and stay awake. You can feel very sleepy during the day and may suddenly fall asleep without warning. Narcolepsy symptoms can come and go or change over time. Some ...