The outlook for some 3 million people with narcolepsy worldwide could soon improve as drugmakers are racing to win approval of a new class of drugs.

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 Horsnell, ...

In late September 2025, RBC Capital upgraded Alkermes following promising phase 2 results for its drug candidate alixorexton in narcolepsy type 1, which showed clinically meaningful efficacy and ...

Daytime sleep attacks like Jimmy Kimmel’s aren’t just fatigue they may signal narcolepsy Read ahead to know about the ...

The World Health Organization urged more investigation into possible links between GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix and other H1N1 flu vaccines and narcolepsy, a rare sleeping disorder. The WHO advisory ...

After getting suspension from ABC, Jimmy Kimmel returns back to his late-night stage with dash of seriousness and laughter. He joked about his personal struggle with narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder ...

These review results were mixed on the use of immunotherapy to treat narcolepsy, with benefits typically being temporary. The chronic sleep disorder narcolepsy is characterized by excessive daytime ...

An unusual increase in narcolepsy cases in Europe was linked to a new flu vaccine used there, and now researchers may have figured out why: A protein in the vaccine appears to mimic one in the brain ...

(WSAW) - Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the way the brain controls sleep-wake cycles and can cause symptoms such as excessive daytime sleepiness or cataplexy which is sudden muscle ...

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 ...