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Diagnosing Sleep Apnea
Your spouse and family have told you that you snore and snort (that is stop breathing) during sleep. You are tired all day even though you seemed to have sleep all night. You have researched Sleep Apnea and checked the various symptom checklists. And yes, it seems that you just might be suffering from sleep apnea. What do you do next?
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How to Speed Up Your Business's Reaction Time
Your small business can interact quickly with your customers. You have to turn this into a competitive advantage.
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Maybe You CAN Be Two Places at Once
This article discusses the ambitious Tele-Immersion project being undertaken within Internet2 efforts.
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What is Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to regulate sleep-wake cycles. About 1 in 2,000 Americans is afflicted by this misunderstood disease
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Neuropathic Pain: New Insights, New Interventions - Part II
We continue from last week with the identification and the mechanics for the various types of neuropathic pain. The actual mechanisms for pain detction are described in minute detail.
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"SLEEPINESS": What Does It Mean?
Sleepiness, as a word, has a common meaning that falls short of the precision required for its use in describing a medical symptom which everyone can agree on. This is becoming apparent from some recently published research. How we should define sleepiness in an objective and precise way represents a complex issue.
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Benefits of Pollution Control
Analysis of non-market benefits of pollution reduction can offer important contributions to the debate concerning costs related to pollution reduction.
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Herpes Infection and Reactivation
The herpes family of viruses enter a latent (silent) phase of infection following initial infection, but can be reactivated resulting in recurrent infection.
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CIDP
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) systemic autoimmune neurologic disorder. This article describes the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of CIDP.
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Chickenpox Basics
Chickenpox (Varicella) is a highly contagious acute viral infection that is worldwide in distribution, and is preventable by vaccination.
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How to Keep Your Feet Warm
Temporary cold feet conditions can be both a nuisance and uncomfortable; these tips will help you get your feet warm again.
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Infections Caused by Herpes Virus
Herpes viruses are second only to influenza and cold viruses in causing human disease. Fifty to eighty percent of adolescents and adults have herpes infections.
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Rapid Screening Tests for HIV
Rapid HIV tests have cut down on the time it takes for individuals to receive their test results, reducing patient anxiety and loss to follow up.
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greenboy Interview (Part III)
Greenboy discusses more about the Phoenix Platform Consortium, including developer support and potential hardware initiatives (Part 3 of 4)
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Understanding Your Sleep Study Results: RDI, Desaturation, and Sleep Architecture
The report of sleep polysomnography (also known as the overnight laboratory sleep study) plays such an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders--especially sleep apnea--that every patient who undergoes one should request a copy. It will prove much more interesting and useful if the patient can read the report with some understanding; it should not be that difficult to learn what to make of it, at least in part. Moreover, it can help a lot in relaying information to other doctors who need to know more than just a diagnostic impression given to a patient in a brief discussion with a sleep specialist.
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Asbestos Health Effects
Learn the different types of asbestos used in industry, its effects on health and asbestos removal methods.
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The invisible link
Continue the journey to explore the WAP world. This article goes down to the session protocol level.
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Subclinical Hypothyroidism
Subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) has causes and symptoms similar to those of overt hypothyroidism. This article describes SH and explains why it should be treated.
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When Sleep Is Unwelcome
Australian researchers have recently unraveled a significant part of the narcolepsy puzzle.
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Neuropathic Pain: New Insights, New Interventions
Recent discoveries regarding the nature of nerupathic pain may soon provide effective relief form this pain for most patients.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Part Two
This is part two of the article about african americans and std's. The std's that this article talks about is AIDS, chlamydia, crabs, genital herpes, gonorrhea and syphilis
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Experiments in Hitch-hiking: What works best?
Ever wondered what works best in fishing rides? Most people have. It's the source of much discussion among hitch-hikers and one of the motivations behind endless "Hitch-hiker's Guides" which try to help their readers fish rides faster. A small handful of people have tried to find out experimentally and reported their results in scientific literature ...
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