Sleeping pill risks

Sleeping pills may be associated with a higher risk of early death.

U.S. researchers analyzed information on nearly 35,000 patients.

More than 10,000 of them had been prescribed sleeping pills.

Researchers noticed a link between common sleep aids and early death and an increase in cancer cases.

Doctors say this is even after accounting for health and lifestyle factors.

While this doesn’t prove that sleeping pills lead to health problems, it is a call for additional research.