This Day in Science History: Nighttime dying linked to sleep apnea from brain cell loss
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
From August 7, 2005: Aim to grow old and die peacefully in your sleep? Be careful what you wish for. A new UCLA study suggests that some people die in their sleep because they stop breathing due to a cumulative loss of cells in the brain's breathing command-post. read more