Dr Dillner's health dilemmas: is it safe to take sleeping pills?

Even a few sleeping tablets may increase your risk of early death, according to new research. So what should insomniacs do now?You have been lying awake for hours, or at least it feels like it. You are desperate for sleep, but it just won't come. In the medicine cabinet are some sleeping tablets your doctor gave you, but the media has been full of warnings that they aren't safe. A paper published last week in the journal BMJ Open looked at 10,500 people who had taken sleeping tablets and compared them to similar people who had not taken medication. It found that people who took pills twice a month or more are nearly four times as likely to die early as those who don't. So should you bin the sleeping pills or take a couple to break the cycle of i...

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