As if cancer, heart disease and other diseases were not enough motivation to make quitting smoking your New Year’s resolution, here’s another wake-up call: New research published in the January 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that smoking disrupts the circadian clock function in both the lungs and the brain. Translation: Smoking ruins productive […]

CPAP is ‘most effective’ for controlling blood pressure in sleep apnea patients “The HeartBEAT Study” finds that continuous positive airway pressure is a superior therapy for reducing blood pressure in patients with sleep apnea, compared with supplemental oxygen. In the early 1980s, doctors began to notice that a high proportion of patients with obstructive sleep apnea were […]