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Every essay, review, field note, and interview we've published. New pieces arrive on Tuesdays; full issues close every three months.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment: One Airway, Many Doors
The pulse oximeter clipped to my finger recorded a number I did not want to see. At 3:14 a.m., my blood oxygen had dropped to 84 percent. Twelve seconds later it climbed back to 96.
Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Risk: What the Snoring Actually Costs Your Heart
Everyone knows the sleeper who saws logs all night and swears they slept like the dead. The snoring is treated as proof of depth — a body so thoroughly unconscious it forgets to be quiet.
What a Sleep Study Actually Measures (and Whether You'll Sleep Through It)
The question nearly everyone asks before a sleep study is some version of the same one: how am I supposed to fall asleep covered in wires, in a strange bed, while a stranger watches?
Sleep Apnea Symptoms: Why the Loudest Sign Is the One You Can't Hear
The most useful symptom of sleep apnea is not the sound you make at night. It's the person you become during the day. That runs against how the condition gets talked about.
I Slept in a Lab and at Home to Compare Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: Both Tests, Reviewed
My apnea-hypopnea index came back at 34. That means, on average, my breathing stalled or collapsed 34 times an hour — roughly once every 108 seconds, all night, for years, without my knowing.
I Tracked My Sleep Apnea With Three Tools for Six Weeks. Only One Told Me the Truth.
I did not expect to spend six weeks strapping instruments to my body every night, but a partner's phone recording — thirty seconds of me stopping breathing, then gasping — will do that to a person.
When the Drug That Fixed Your Legs Starts Making Them Worse: Augmentation in Restless Legs Syndrome
You started pramipexole three years ago and the first month felt like a small miracle. The crawling stopped. You slept.
The Best Hybrid Mattress for Hot Sleepers: I Slept on Four Through a July Heatwave
The standard advice for hot sleepers shopping mattresses is clean and repeatable: buy a hybrid, because coils move air and foam traps it, so a coil-support core will sleep cooler than an all-foam bed.…
CPAP Alternatives: What the 50 Percent Number Actually Tells You
There is a number that quietly powers most of the searching people do after an apnea diagnosis, and it is roughly 50 percent.
Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy: How a Thin Belief Grew Into a Big Warning
A woman is seven months pregnant and snoring for the first time in her life. Her partner mentions it, half-amused.