All posts tagged "Sleepdisorders"

The White House confirmed Wednesday that President Joe Biden has recently started using a CPAP machine to address his sleep apnea. The news came after indentations from the machine’s straps were noticed on both sides of his face as he left the White House Wednesday morning, reports CNN. The marks were also visible during a Monday event at the White House, where he was promoting the growth of high-speed internet. “Since 2008, the president has disclosed his history with sleep apnea in thorough medical reports. He used a CPAP machine last night, which is common for people with that history,” Whi......

Dr. Julian Kim was teaching a minor surgical procedure in Cleveland when he started walking funny. He didn’t notice it, but someone else in the operating room did. “I actually had a bleed into my brain … related to high blood pressure,” Kim said. “I didn’t even know I had high blood pressure.” Kim had a stroke that day. He survived in part because he was in a hospital and received immediate care with medication to lower his blood pressure. It still took him six months of physical therapy to recover but, five years later, he’s working as a cancer surgeon at Prisma Health in Columbia and says he......

For years, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, experts on all things sleep, has called for daylight saving time to be abolished. In the days leading up to this weekend's time change, their cause was debated in yet another congressional hearing. But for now, we're stuck with, well, Cranky Monday. "Basically what is going to happen Monday morning is that you will have jet lag without traveling," said Dr. Abid Bhat, medical director for the University Health Sleep Center, formerly Truman Medical Centers. We move our clocks ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. Medical experts oppose this yo-yoing o......

CHICAGO — One morning in March2021, at a nursing home in Evanston, resident Velta Saint registered an alarmingly low 44% oxygen level in her blood. Normal levels range from 95% to 100%, and one study recommends hospitalization for any patient with a reading below 90%. Medical workers tried to improve Saint’s respiration, then sent her to a hospital — which sent her back to the nursing home, before she was returned to the hospital, where she died. Saint’s ordeal came after her daughter, a registered nurse, said the home had been slow, in her opinion, to diagnose her condition and failed to trea......