Medical Complications of Obesity Obesity is a serious disease process that can lead to many medical complications. Unfortunately, weight management, which generally improves these complications (“medical co-morbidities”) requires long-term intervention to achieve long-term results. Sometimes, relatively simple dietary interventions such as decreasing saturated-fat intake, increasing intake of EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and especially DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) [...]
FISHERSVILLE — The Augusta Health Sleep Center recently received a five-year accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Directed by Dr. Evan Wenger, the center is located on Augusta Health’s campus. The facility combines a sleep clinic and lab and employs a team of technicians and a physician to diagnose and treat a variety [...]
(1888PressRelease) Carolina Sleep in Greenville is the first medical practice in North Carolina to offer Provent Therapy for patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Lee A. Surkin, MD is the first medical practice in the state of North Carolina to offer Provent Sleep Apnea Therapy, an innovative, non-invasive treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to patients [...]
An Unexpected Condition Especially when you’re young, sleep apnea can kill you. When old, it can really muck up your life.And American and Canadian police appear to suffer sleep apnea in epidemic numbers.That’s not the conclusion reached by media reports on an important Harvard study on 5000 American and Canadian police. Media reports declared a [...]
An Unexpected Condition Especially when you’re young, sleep apnea can kill you. When old, it can really muck up your life.And American and Canadian police appear to suffer sleep apnea in epidemic numbers.That’s not the conclusion reached by media reports on an important Harvard study on 5000 American and Canadian police. Media reports declared a [...]
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Frisco, Texas (PRWEB) December 20, 2011 SomnoMed, Inc., manufacturer of the world’s leading oral appliance, SomnoDent for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea announces that the Armed Services Association (ASA) has confirmed the company’s SomnoDent registration to provide United States Military personnel OSA Treatment. This registration confirmation coincides with a recent announcement from the US [...]
Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger Doctors Adrianna Hekiert and Amy Lazar perform Trans Oral Robotic Surgery for sleep apnea on Charles Theobald at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville on Monday, Dec. 12. Here Lazar is working manually while Hekiert operates the robot. (Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger) Sleep Apnea Surgery gallery (13 photos) SOMERVILLE — Charles Theobald drives [...]
A new study has found that four out of 10 North American police officers surveyed have some sort of sleep disorder. The researchers say the result can be impaired job performance, as well as a variety of health problems. Charles Czeisler, a leading sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in [...]