Wherever you live in the world, the media focus this week has been on sleep and the dangers when it is interrupted, but particularly if by snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea. In this week’s article we’re taking a quick world tour to review what has been said and to see if it differs country by country. Snoring is noisy, and a real nuisance, a...

Everyone who considers buying a property near a main road considers the noise problem, but there are worse things to take into count and it has now been strongly linked in a report in The Lancet to higher rates of dementia. Scientists have already found that heavy snoring at night and intense sleepiness during the day are strongly linked to traf...