The manufacturer of Ambien, Sanofi-Aventis, admitted there are side effects to the sleep medication, but said in a tweet, "People of all races, religions and nationalities work at Sanofi every day ...

Dr. Rachel Salas, associate professor of Neurology in the Sleep Medicine Division at Johns Hopkins Medicine, said “people could text or tweet while on Ambien and not remember.” ...

Alternatives to Ambien include sleep medications like Hetlioz, Neupro, and Silenor. Melatonin is another sleep aid available over the counter in supplements.

The former patent holder of the sleep medication, Ambien (zolpidem), had a what appears to be a thinly veiled message on Wednesday morning for Roseanne Barr, the actress and comedian who wrote ...

But now, says Blackstone, she also takes another medication that helps defeat her urge to eat in her sleep. Over 26 million Ambien prescriptions were doled out last year, ringing up more than $2 ...

Several of the newer "hypnotic" sleep medications - called "Z drugs" - might be better than the earlier generation of sleep medications. But new reports of lives nearly destroyed due to side effects ...

If those don’t do the trick and your insomnia isn’t caused by an underlying condition, there are medications that can help. Lunesta and Ambien are two commonly prescribed drugs for short-term ...

Many Americans use prescription sleep meds such as Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata to get good shut-eye. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday slapped a tough new warning label on this ...

One in 10 women take medication to fall or stay asleep, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Laura Cathcart Robbins, 58, was one of them when she became addicted to Ambien ...

“Taking Ambien doesn’t take care of sleep deprivation. So, the combination of sleep deprivation and medication side effects might result in disinhibited or bizarre behavior,” Seixas said ...

Lunesta is better for people who have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep (sleep-maintenance insomnia). It has a longer half-life in the body than Ambien, meaning it acts for a longer period.