Narcolepsy with cataplexy, now known as type 1 narcolepsy, is a chronic neurological disorder that affects a person’s sleep-wake cycle and involves muscle weakness. The condition can cause a person to ...

Hypersomnia and narcolepsy are both sleep disorders that cause excessive daytime sleepiness and other changes in natural sleep-wake cycles. "Hypersomnia" actually refers to several sleep conditions ...

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s experimental narcolepsy drug significantly improved outcome for patients in late-stage clinical trials, and could become the first treatment to target the root cause of the ...

Narcolepsy was not associated with increased mortality risk compared to not having the condition, even among patients with psychiatric comorbidities, a new retrospective cohort study showed. The ...

Narcolepsy, with or without cataplexy, can have a substantial detrimental effect on well-being and quality of life. Because there is no cure for this condition, current treatments aim to improve ...

LONDON/HELSINKI (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation is reviewing the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine after a Finnish study suggested children who got the shot were nine ...