Amanda Myers is a senior at the University of Florida majoring in pre-veterinary studies. She is also a competitive weightlifter, and a speaker for Project Sleep's Rising Voices of Narcolepsy program.

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 is a rare condition that will make someone fall asleep abruptly — even in the middle of the day during an activity. It's possible to treat narcolepsy and manage your symptoms with lifestyle ...

WASHINGTON — She’s too sleepy to be woke. Lefty congressional hopeful Kat Abughazaleh copped to snoozing through a virtual ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Matthew Horsnell began ...

Narcolepsy used to be a sure-fire punchline. It seemed everybody laughed at the character who instantly fell asleep at the worst possible moment. Everybody except people who had narcolepsy. These days ...

Pitolisant (Wakix) in children ages 6 years and up led to clinically meaningful improvements in narcolepsy symptoms in a phase III trial. Among 110 kids with narcolepsy with or without cataplexy, ...

Aaron Schokman is a member of the Sleep Health Foundation’s Consumer Reference Council. He has also received funding from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation for narcolepsy related ...

(CNN) — Matthew Horsnell began falling asleep for no reason when he was in sixth grade. “I would go to bed at 8:30 at night, yet every morning I would wake up and struggle to get out of bed,” said ...

Narcolepsy is estimated to affect one in 2,000 people in the United States and some 3 million worldwide, according to the Narcolepsy Network, a non-profit patient advocacy group. However, that ...