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 ...

Narcolepsy can lead to excessive daytime sleepiness, as well as cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle tone. Other symptoms can include sleep paralysis and hallucinations that occur both during sleep ...

It was as unexpected as it was tragic: children in northern Europe who got one particular vaccine against the 2009 swine flu pandemic were at a much higher risk of developing narcolepsy, a ...

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 ...

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 ...