A case report describes a 3-year-old boy whose snoring and apneas, initially attributed to common causes, were eventually ...

For young children with mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and small tonsils, adenotonsillectomy (ATE) seems to be no more effective than watchful waiting (WW), according to a study published online ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that causes people to stop breathing repeatedly while they sleep, sometimes over ...

Dear Doctors: One of those sleep apps that record you at night said I have "unstable breathing" that could be sleep apnea. It turns out the "unstable" reading was because the app was also recording my ...

Adenotonsillectomy wasn't better than just keeping an eye on young children with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) over 3 years of follow-up in a small randomized trial. Watchful waiting ...

A trial involving Michigan Medicine researchers has upended a long-held belief that adenotonsillectomies for children with mild sleep-disordered breathing leads to undesirable weight gain.

Poor attention, restless behavior, and school difficulties are not always what they seem. In some children, the explanat ...

Sleep apnea in children involves a dysfunction of the upper airway, causing a child to stop and restart breathing multiple times during sleep. This can result in issues with sleep quality, frequent ...

During Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital is celebrating its first successful implantation of an ...