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Sleep Apnea and Your Kidneys
Sleep apnea is associated with a disheartening number of chronic ailments. Over the last ten years, obstructive sleep apnea has been linked to heart disease, stroke, arthritis, even diminished IQ in children. For this reason, it is considered something of a canary in the coalmine: often present, but rarely to blame. No study has definitively … Continue reading Sleep Apnea and Your Kidneys
View More >>Your Sense of Smell Could Save Your Life
It is widely known that going through life without a sense of smell can inhibit pleasure. Some patients report feeling disgusted by foods they used to love; others find the whole world gray and without interest. Now a new study has identified yet another drawback to impaired olfactory sense (anosmia): mortal danger. Researchers were interested … Continue reading Your Sense of Smell Could Save Your Life
View More >>Can the Sniffles Kill Your Company?
It is an evergreen question in public health: just how much money do Americans lose every year in productivity to basic ailments like the common cold? Such calculations can be tricky, as they involve a number of overlapping signals – say you miss a day of work; you may spend $20 at the pharmacy for … Continue reading Can the Sniffles Kill Your Company?
View More >>Sleep Apnea Knows No Gender
Most people believe snoring and obstructive sleep apnea are men’s problems. Part of this is simple fact – experts believe that men are twice as likely to present with the disorder as women. But another reason is that women become susceptible to sleep apnea under somewhat different circumstances from men. As it turns out, although … Continue reading Sleep Apnea Knows No Gender
View More >>How Sleep Apnea Harms Brain Cells
An important new study may have found a reason to explain the strong correlation between sleep apnea and a host of health symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and impaired memory. Using an unusual test to measure blood flow to the brain, researchers discovered that weaker flow could account for the sort of damage that causes … Continue reading How Sleep Apnea Harms Brain Cells
View More >>Rare Good News About Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea often plays the bogeyman in this space, not least because it is closely associated with a variety of health ailments. Depression, obesity, heart disease and even lowered IQ have all been linked to sleep apnea at one time or another. Which is why it is unusual to read a news report that … Continue reading Rare Good News About Sleep Apnea
View More >>Does Sinusitis Come with a Different Biome?
A biome refers to the population of microorganisms that call your body home. A growing body of scholarship has begun to zero in on human biomes to understand their diversity and medicinal properties, and determine whether changes in the biome may cause changes in human health. One theory has been floated about chronic rhinosinusitis, which … Continue reading Does Sinusitis Come with a Different Biome?
View More >>Nasal Polyps Linked to More Severe Disease in Women
Nasal polyps are often benign, and can be easily removed with nasal polyp removal surgery. But just because these gelatinous sacs can be addressed quickly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of study. On the contrary, new data suggests that chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps may be linked to a more serious form of asthma in … Continue reading Nasal Polyps Linked to More Severe Disease in Women
View More >>When Will We Get the Flu Vaccine Right?
It is a truism of microbiology that very small creatures have an evolutionary advantage over us. Their tiny size, rapid procreation and sky-high populations make germs ideally equipped to develop fortuitous mutations which render them immune to our defenses. This is as true in vaccines as it is in the body, which helps to account … Continue reading When Will We Get the Flu Vaccine Right?
View More >>Lack of Sleep Kills Brain Cells
Let us get something out of the way first: we are not rats. Rat studies, which have been more or less the lingua franca of biological research for two generations, do not extrapolate consistently to humans. Countless headline-grabbing rat experiments have failed to deliver similar results in human studies – sometimes spectacularly. But rat research … Continue reading Lack of Sleep Kills Brain Cells
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