Sleep apnea is a common and potentially deadly sleep disorder in which your breathing may stop for 10 seconds or more multiple times per hour. Types of Sleep Apnea There are two primary forms of sleep apnea: - Obstructive sleep apnea - Central sleep apnea Obstructive sleep apnea is the result of an airway obstruction that is typically caused by overly relaxed muscles in the throat. When these muscles relax, tissue in the throat can collapse, narrowing the airway and preventing adequate oxygen intake. Central sleep apnea is less common and occurs when your ...

Any kind of physician can be held liable for medical malpractice, including cosmetic surgeons. If your cosmetic surgery has an unwanted or medically dangerous outcome, you may be able to sue your cosmetic surgeon based on: - Medical negligence - Breach of contract - Breach of warranty Each of these theories requires you to prove different legal elements in order to win a lawsuit. Below, each theory of liability is examined in more detail. Medical Negligence in Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice The majority of medical malpractice claims are based on negligence, ...

With the exception of New Hampshire, drivers are required by law to carry insurance in every state in the US. Yet the Insurance Research Council estimates that one out of every seven drivers is uninsured or underinsured. Worse still, some studies have found that as many as 50 percent of all car accidents are caused by uninsured or underinsured drivers. When you are involved in a car accident caused by an uninsured or underinsured driver, it can be incredibly difficult to get the compensation you will require to recover. If you have opted for uninsured driver coverage ...

Going to the hospital is a frightening experience for many people. Needing surgery or being so ill as to require hospitalization can be a terrifying idea. However, few people worry that in seeking treatment for a medical issue they might be making their situations worse. Healthcare provider errors are serious issues and thousands of people in the U.S. suffer unnecessarily each year as a result. In November 2012, the federal government announced a pilot program for patients to report medical errors in an effort to increase healthcare safety. Medical errors widespread ...

With tuition costs skyrocketing and the economy still lagging, the educational debt load has been on the rise for each successive graduating class, and Tennessee is no exception. Student loans surpass credit card debt in U.S. Student loan debt in the U.S. exceeded the $1 trillion mark in 2011, and it is still growing steadily. According to an NBC report, Americans now owe more for student loans than for all of the nation's credit card debt combined. Many experts fear how these unprecedented debt levels will affect the long-term financial outlook of today's college ...

A recent study conducted at Yale-New Haven Hospital shows that there is much confusion around medication instructions given to many patients upon discharge. As a result of the misunderstanding, many have experienced medical problems or subsequently readmitted to the hospital. The study looked at 377 patients, ages 64 and older who were admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital. The participants were admitted for heart failure, acute coronary syndrome or pneumonia and later discharged. According to the data, 81 percent of participants encountered problems with their medication. ...

Bicycle accidents happen every day on New York City streets. Cyclists can be harmed in these accidents because of the power and size differences between bicycles and vehicles. The worst part is that cyclists rarely see what happened to them and are left without any recovery. Injured bicyclists may have the opportunity to recover for their injuries in a personal injury lawsuit, but they will sometimes need evidence to prove what happened. Some New York City bicyclists are being proactive by strapping video cameras to their helmets in order to make sure that those hitting ...

With the holiday season here, many children in Texas will be looking forward to playing with their new toys. Parents should take warning, though -- not all toys are as safe as they might seem. In 2012 alone, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 38 toys over fears that they posed safety hazards to children. There are a few important actions parents can take to help keep their children safe from dangerous and defective products. The first is to make sure they thoroughly read the warning labels on any new toys. Many toys are perfectly safe for their intended ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a federal agency dedicated to improving motor vehicle and traffic safety. The NHTSA promotes its mission by setting safety performance standards for motor vehicles, distributing grants to state and local governments, and making recommendations to lawmaking bodies based on the agency's research. In December, 2012, the NHTSA made an unprecedented recommendation to state governments: require the use of ignition interlock devices by everyone convicted of a drunk driving offense, even first-time offenders. An ignition ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Columbia Hotel (Northeast) offers close lodging to guests attending the 5th Annual World Beer Festival - Columbia, SC. The event will take place on January 19, 2012 at Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Presented by All About Beer Magazine, featured styles of beer samples include: IPAs, pale ales, witbiers, pilsners, ciders, stouts and many more. Tickets can be purchased at allaboutbeer.com. "The World of Beer Festival has become a popular annual event in Columbus; it has been recognized as one of the premier beer events in the country ...

Hollywood casting director James Levine is pleased to announce the launch of a new company, Action Casting, which is comprised of a team of experienced casting directors. James Levine's experience and creative vision in all avenues of casting make Action Casting the best choice for SAG actors, Real People, Non-Union and Spanish Language talent in Los Angeles, New York or any other city across the United States and beyond. Action Casting's mission is to bring your concept to life using the highest caliber of talent possible. The company approaches each casting project ...

Clinical psychologist Dr. Sherri Nader is pleased to announce that she has expanded her private practice to Pacific Palisades. This allows Dr. Nader to offer the same services she performs at her Encino office, but in a private setting more accessible to Westside residents. For many years Dr. Nader has been helping adolescents, adults, elderly, couples and families find solutions to the problems they're facing, including: abuse, ADHD, anxiety and worry, children's behavioral problems, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, divorce, gay and lesbian issues, marriage ...

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Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper takes you back in time to the early 1960s, where we meet 16-year-old Laurel, who witnesses her mother commit an unspeakable act at her baby brother's birthday party. Opening with such a strong plot point could make you wonder if the book will succeed in maintaining momentum, but there isn't any concern of that when Morton then plunges us back in time even further, to the unique period of World War II, when relationships, lives and decisions were all dictated by the harsh living conditions resulting from years of ongoing war. Here we get ...

If the sinful excess of holiday eating sends your system into butter-slathered, brandy-soaked overload, you are not alone: People who are jet-lagged, people who work graveyard shifts and plain-old late-night snackers know just how you feel. All these activities upset the body's "food clock," a collection of interacting genes and molecules known technically as the food-entrainable oscillator, which keeps the human body on a metabolic even keel. A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is helping to reveal how this clock works on ...

Children suspected of having appendicitis are more likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are evaluated at a general hospital, a new study by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown. Similar patients who went to St. Louis Children's Hospital were more often evaluated with an ultrasound scan, a safer option that uses sound waves instead of radiation to confirm or rule out the need for surgery to remove the appendix. Use of either scanning technique can potentially reduce the occurrence of unnecessary surgeries and expedite ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Contributing geometric and topological analyses of micro-materials, University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician Robert Kusner aided experimental physicists at the University of Colorado (UC) by successfully explaining the observed "beautiful and complex patterns revealed" in three-dimensional liquid crystal experiments. The work is expected to lead to creation of new materials that can be actively controlled. Kusner is a geometer, an expert in the analysis of variational problems in low-dimensional geometry and topology, which concerns properties ...

By the time they reached toddlerhood, very preterm infants originally treated with higher oxygen levels continued to show benefits when compared to a group treated with lower oxygen levels, according to a follow-up study by a research network of the National Institutes of Health that confirms earlier network findings. Moreover, infants treated with a respiratory therapy commonly prescribed for adults with obstructive sleep apnea fared as well as those who received the traditional therapy for infant respiratory difficulties, the new study found. In the original 2010 ...

Human corneal endothelial cells (HCEnCs) form a monolayer of hexagonal cells whose main function is to maintain corneal clarity by regulating corneal hydration. Cell loss due to aging or corneal endothelial disorders, such as Fuchs dystrophy, can lead to cornea edema and blindness, resulting in the need for cornea transplants. Studying human corneal endothelium has been difficult for cell biologists because limited cellular model systems exist and have significant drawbacks. The major drawback is that HCEnC cells do not divide and there is a limited source of these cells ...

As anyone familiar with the X-Men knows, mutants can be either very good or very bad — or somewhere in between. The same appears true within cancer cells, which may harbor hundreds of mutations that set them apart from other cells in the body; the scientific challenge has been to figure out which mutations are culprits and which are innocent bystanders. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have devised a novel approach to sorting them out: they generated random mutations in a gene associated with lymphoma, tested the proteins produced by the genes to see how they ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- For nearly a decade, breast cancer researchers studying the hormone therapy tamoxifen have been divided as to whether genetic differences in a liver enzyme affect the drug's effectiveness and the likelihood breast cancer will recur. A new study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and the Austrian Breast and Colorectal Cancer Study Group provides evidence that genetic differences in the enzyme CYP2D6 play a key role in how well tamoxifen works. "Our findings confirm that, in early breast cancer treated with tamoxifen, genetic alterations ...

PHILADELPHIA – Nearly half of the 700,000 cancer patients who undergo surgical removal of a primary tumor each year suffer a recurrence of their disease at some point, and many of those patients will eventually die from their disease. The traditional view of recurrent tumors is that they are resistant to therapy because they've acquired additional genetic mutations that make them more aggressive and impervious to drugs. Now, however, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania show in an animal model that the enhanced aggressiveness ...

Taking into consideration its size, an ancient relative of piranhas weighing about 20 pounds delivered a bite with a force more fierce than prehistoric whale-eating sharks, the four-ton ocean-dwelling Dunkleosteus terrelli and – even – Tyrannosaurus rex. Besides the force of the bite, Megapiranha paranensis appears to have had teeth capable of shearing through soft tissue the way today's piranhas do, while also being able to pierce thick shells and crack armoring and bones, according to Stephanie Crofts, a University of Washington doctoral student in biology. "If our ...

Many of the most common inpatient surgeries in the United States are performed electively. These surgeries are expected to significantly increase with the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. In a new perspectives article, published in the Dec. 27 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Weill Cornell Medical College researchers are recommending the nation's health care leaders and medical community join forces to establish evidence-based appropriateness criteria to determine which patients are most in need of elective procedures, such as joint replacement ...

CHAPEL HILL - Long-standing research efforts have been focused on understanding how stem cells, cells capable of transforming into any type of cell in the body, are capable of being programmed down a defined path to contribute to the development of a specific organ like a heart, lung, or kidney. Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has shed new light on how epigenetic signals may function together to determine the ultimate fate of a stem cell. The study, published December 27, 2012 by the journal Molecular Cell, implicates ...