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San Francisco, CA: With September coming to an end, so was the tour of Living Heart Foundation (LHF) and Professional Athletes Foundation’s (PAF) nationwide health screening events for former NFL players. In the second to last screening being held of 2019, American Sleep and Breathing...

The Sleep and Wellness Magazine | SUMMER 2019 issue is online! Click here or see below to view the entire version of the latest magazine.   ASBA members can enjoy the benefit of receiving a hard copy of every quarterly issue at no extra...

  Pankaj Singh, DDS, MD, does not mince words when assessing the knowledge levels of his dental colleagues. Even dentists who know the scope of oral appliance therapy often practice “with guesswork,” he says. Even more troubling, most of those in the traditional restorative...

  Results of a multi-year study by the Sleep Research Society concluded that insomnia rates soared among combat soldiers from 1997 to 2011, spiking considerably after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As reported in Military Times, the study covered 1.3 million military personnel, and...

  As oral appliance therapy continues to gain respect across the health care continuum, predictors of treatment outcomes are emerging. Small and detailed physiological studies that look at OSA endotypic traits (pharyngeal collapsibility and loop gain) can help determine greater oral appliance efficacy. PubMed...

  A ResMed-led analysis published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (July 2019) estimates that more than 936 million people have obstructive sleep apnea. As summarized in news-medical.net and elsewhere, the estimate from the multinational analysis by ResMed and 12 sleep researchers is nearly 10...

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA PASADENA, CA – Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif, have found that serotonin is necessary for sleep in two key animal models. An article on the Caltech web site details work by David...

ORLANDO, FL – The actual National Football League (NFL) Pro Bowl game is famously uncompetitive. Instead of scoring touchdowns, the main goal among players is largely to stay uninjured.   Retired players who arrive for related festivities are also focusing on their health, but unlike...

In an attempt to turn their stores into “health service hubs,” the two largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. (Walgreens and CVS) are remodeling stores to resemble doctors’ offices. According to an Associated Press article by M. Spencer Green, CVS opened three such concept...