SleepApneaDisorder/[ Press Release ] / BELMONT, Calif., March 3, 2011 / Ventus Medical, Inc. a privately-held medical device company dedicated to providing novel products to treat sleep-disordered breathing, today announced that it has received CE Mark for its Provent® Sleep Apnea Therapy.
“We are pleased to accomplish this important regulatory milestone. Receiving CE Mark for Provent Therapy will facilitate our international commercialization strategy and allow us to launch this product in selected countries over the next several months,” said Peter Wyles, president and chief executive officer of Ventus Medical. “We intend to introduce Provent Therapy internationally in a systematic way through established distributors, focusing on countries with a high prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea. There is a clear need for therapeutic options other than CPAP and Provent Therapy represents an attractive new alternative.” Read the rest of this entry
AZ-TMJ is once again leading the way in innovative and effective treatments for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Sleep apnea is a disorder where a person’s ability to breathe is impaired, resulting in a restless sleep and oftentimes snoring.
“Often the two conditions are related but are not directly correlated in all cases. Unlike simple snoring, OSA can be potentially life-threatening, requiring medical attention.” “It’s important for patients to understand the difference between snoring and OSA,” explained Dr. Stan Farrell. Read the rest of this entry
A peer-reviewed study in the February issue of Sleep Medicine found that Provent Sleep Apnea Therapy, a noninvasive, disposable nasal device, improved obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)—as measured by the number of breathing disruptions during sleep—in more than half of patients, leading them to feel more alert during the day. The study was conducted in patients who either had refused or were noncompliant with CPAP therapy.
The study, conducted at St Luke’s Hospital Sleep Medicine and Research Center in Chesterfield, Mo, included 59 patients and is titled “A convenient expiratory positive airway pressure nasal device for the treatment of sleep apnea in patients non-adherent with continuous positive airway pressure.” Read the rest of this entry
With the National Sleep Foundation reporting that six out of ten Americans suffer with insomnia several nights a week and 25% of the U.S. population uses sleeping drugs (known as “hypnotics”), an increasing number people these days are looking for natural sleep remedies. In recent research studies, it was discovered that both walnuts and tart cherries contain significant levels of the natural sleep hormone melatonin, and may therefore be a natural, food-based way to get a better night’s sleep.
Russel Reiter, Ph.D., a professor of cellular biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center says, “Relatively few foods have been examined for their melatonin content. Our studies demonstrate that walnuts contain melatonin, that it is absorbed when it is eaten, and that it improves our ability to resist oxidative stress caused by toxic molecules called free radicals. Walnuts also contain large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, which have been shown to inhibit certain types of cancer and to keep the heart healthy.” Read the rest of this entry
SleepApneaDisorder/ [ Press Release ] / Hanover Park, IL (Vocus/Dr. Jin Zhou, DC at PainUSA.com celebrates seventh year of Zhou’s Hypoxicology Therapy (ZHT) clinical research, for possible solutions to more medical conditions than just sleep apnea, such as malignant hypoxic tumors. He believes that both hypoxic tumor and sleep apnea may possibly share the same causes, thus need same solutions. His research was encouraged by the latest cancer research from other scientists, “Hypoxic Tumors And Their Effect On Immune Cells And Cancer Therapy”, recently published on Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol 651, 2010;651:1-29. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20686957)
With obvious and satisfactory clinical benefits from ZHT in early clinical observations for sleep apnea and anecdotal benefits for clinical hypoxia, Dr. Zhou is seeking for alternative solutions to sleep apnea and hypoxic tumors that are completely supernatural and most economical. Read the rest of this entry
About 2% of women and at least 4% of men suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, a condition in which the airway collapses and blocks breathing for 30 seconds or even up to a minute or two. Being overweight more than doubles your risk of having sleep apnea, says Dr. Lawrence Epstein, chief medical officer at Sleep HealthCenters, a network of clinics based in Brighton, Mass.
In children, sleep apnea was traditionally associated with enlarged tonsils and adenoids or skeletal abnormalities, which can constrict the airway. But doctors are finding that more children are being treated for sleep apnea as a result of being overweight. Dr. David Gozal, a pediatric sleep specialist at the University of Chicago, says the percentage of obese children being treated for sleep apnea in his program has increased from 23% in 1995 to more than 57% now.
Sleep specialists are also doing preliminary research on a technique called neuromodulation, which uses a device to emit a tone into a patient’s ears during sleep. This is supposed to stimulate parts of the brain that control the tongue and upper airways, keeping them taut. [ Read Complte Post By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli, Special to the Los Angeles Times... ]
Many people think it’s cute when their kids snore – but they actually may not be getting enough sleep. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a common problem in children and can affect behavior and cause other medical problems. The most successful treatment is well known surgical procedure.
Dr. Christopher Murry, an ear, nose and throat specialist recommends a sleep study to determine if kids have obstructive sleep apnea, people who have it stop and start breathing again many times during the night.
For this children would need to spent the night at theMaine Sleep Institute’s sleep lab, located at Maine Medical Center. An overnight sleep test would find out if a kid has mild sleep apnea and it could keep a kid from growing normally.
“If they have disruptive sleep, sleep fragmentation, then they don’t release growth hormones as they should. They may burn acalories at night just from the sleep disorder breathing and arousals at night,” said Dr. Murry.
Thesleep problems also aggravate asthma and reflux problems among kids. Dr. Murry recommends taking out the tonsils and adenoids.
Doctors say tonsillectomies help relieve health problems in up to 70 prercent of children who have sleep disorder problems. They say parents should tell their pediatrician if their child snores or has trouble sleeping at night, so they can be referred to a specialist.
A new study found that certain oxygen saturation parameters were improved by one dose of sleep apnea treatment CX1739, but findings also showed a reduced sleep time during the night following drug treatment. Moreover, CX1739 did not reduce the mean apnea/hypopnea index (AHI).
The study enrolled 20 relatively healthy adults with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea; 16 were administered a single oral dose of CX1739 and four received matching placebo for 1 night. The objective of the study was to further explore safety and tolerability in the sleep apnea population, as well as to assess putative efficacy of CX1739 on a range of sleep apnea parameters assessed by overnight polysomnography.
“A single dose of CX1739 improved a number of sleep apnea parameters across most of the 16 subjects who were given the drug, and there were some CX1739-treated subjects who demonstrated a robust reduction in sleep apnea symptoms,” said Mark Varney, PhD, president and CEO of Cortex, developer of the drug. Read the rest of this entry
This recently concluded research study evaluated sex and family history of alcoholism as moderators of subjective ratings of sleepiness/sleep quality and polysomnography (PSG) following alcohol intoxication in healthy, young adults.
Ninety-three healthy adults [mean age 24.4 ± 2.7 years, 59 women, 29 subjects with a positive family history of alcoholism (FH+)] were recruited. After screening PSG, participants consumed alcohol (sex/weight adjusted dosing) to intoxication [peak breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) of 0.11 ± 0.01 g% for men and women] or matching placebo between 20:30 and 22:00 hours. Sleep was monitored using PSG between 23:00 and 07:00 hours. Participants completed the Stanford Sleepiness Scale and Karolinska Sleepiness Scale at bedtime and on awakening and a validated post-sleep questionnaire. Read the rest of this entry
Campbell County Memorial Hospital and the American Sleep Apnea Association have teamed up to form AWAKE, a sleep apnea awareness group.
AWAKE or Alert, Well, and Keeping Energetic is a quarterly health awareness group for people with sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a condition in which people experience periods of time when they stop breathing while sleeping.
The group will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Campbell County Public Library’s Wyoming Room.
The group is free and anyone with questions about snoring, daytime sleepiness, restless legs, insomnia, unexplained high blood pleasure or those using C-PAP or B-PAP machines for sleep apnea should attend.
Guest speaker Patty Wilson will tell her experiences with sleep apnea. The hospital’s sleep disorders clinic also will be present to answer any questions.
For more information, call Dessie Hoxie at the Sleep Disorders Clinic at 688-2350 or visit www.ccmh.net.
The Canadian Thoracic Society released new guidelines on sleep disordered breathing, which provide the latest recommendations for sleep apnea diagnosis and treatment. The guidelines are created for health-care professionals by physicians who are experts in sleep disordered breathing. They are designed to keep health-care professionals up to date on the most recent evidence about how to diagnose and manage sleep apnea.
What is Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea is a serious breathing disorder that causes sufferers to have dozens or hundreds of breathing pauses or “apneas” per night. These repeated periods of breathing pauses during sleep and the chronic sleep deprivation they cause have both physical and psychological consequences. People with untreated sleep apnea are more likely to have motor vehicle crashes, hypertension, and heart attacks, irregular heart beat stroke, depression, impotence and diabetes. Read the rest of this entry
A Coon Rapids sleep center with latest technology to help patients deal with sleep disorders at the Northwind Lung Specialists & Sleep Center has been providing services to patients with sleep disorders since 2004. Now, new technology allows the patient’s sleep study to take place at home.
For some people, the overnight sleep study, which is monitored by a technician in another room at the center, is both inconvenient and intimidating, Dahl said. For the overnight sleep study, they are hooked up to a variety of diagnostic equipment to monitor heart rate, brain waves and leg movements while they sleep, all of which is captured on a video camera.
For sleep disorders like obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy and restless leg syndrome , the ARES home sleeping test is ideal for most obstructive sleep apnea patients, which make up the majority of cases seen at Northwind. Obstructive sleep apnea is a physical condition caused by the airway collapsing and resulting in an interruption in breathing that lasts for at least 10 seconds. According to the National Sleep Foundation, about one in four men and one in 10 women suffer from sleep apnea. Read the rest of this entry
Sleep Apnea Disorder/ [ Press Relese ] / The Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA) Summit will be the first venue to exhibit the new Transcend Sleep Apnea Therapy System. To be held at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta on March 1-3 this year, the HTAA Summit is the trucking industry’s premiere health and wellness event focused on improving the health of the nation’s professional driver population. Attracting trucking fleet safety directors, HR directors, recruitment and retention managers, and other fleet executives and industry leaders, this year’s Summit will feature sessions on sleep disorders, obesity and weight loss, hypertension and heart health, respiratory health, diabetes, and more.
Transcend is a new wearable obstructive sleep apnea ( OSA) therapy device designed to overcome hurdles associated with using a bulky, hassle-ridden traditional CPAP. Weighing about 1 lb, the FDA-approved Transcend is the smallest CPAP on the market. It is easy to operate, uses low power, replaces the messy humidification chamber with heat moisture exchange technology, and has optional battery back-up. Transcend will be on display at the Summit on March 2 and 3. Read the rest of this entry
A good night’s sleep has a direct connection to a healthy lifestyle. If you’re tossing and turning, or if you’re like the 37 million American’s who reportedly suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, you could be putting yourself at risk.
“It is a serious problem, because when you stop breathing obviously, your oxygen level in your blood goes down, and it affects basically all the organs in your body,” said Dr. Stephen Seidler with Orange City Dental Care.
If left untreated, sleep apnea can lead to obesity, heart disease and even stroke and that’s why coming to the dentist’s office could be the key to solving your issues.
Dr. Seidler explains how a small device, similar to a retainer, has helped some of his patients. “It snaps in on the bottom and the front (of your teeth),” he says. “It’s keeping the lower jaw forward so it doesn’t allow it to fall back.” FOX 35′s Talitha Vickers spoke with Dr. Stephen who demonstrates the device in the accompanying video.
Less sleep is associated with an increased risk for colon cancer, according to a recent report in the journal Cancer (Thompson CL et al. 2011;117:841-847). The investigators found that individuals who averaged less than six hours of sleep each night had a nearly 50% higher risk for developing colorectal adenomas than individuals who slept at least seven hours a night.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to report a significant association between sleep duration and colorectal adenomas, supporting short duration of sleep as a novel risk factor for the development of early colorectal neoplasia,” the study authors wrote.
The increased risk for colorectal adenoma associated with less sleep was comparable to the risk associated with well-known risk factors for colon cancer: having a first-degree relative with colorectal cancer or ingesting high quantities of red meat. Read the rest of this entry
SleepApneaDisorder/[ Press Release ] / BELMONT, Calif., March 3, 2011 / Ventus Medical, Inc. a privately-held medical device company dedicated to providing novel products to treat sleep-disordered breathing, today announced that it has received CE Mark for its Provent® Sleep Apnea Therapy.
