Doctors missed telling signs mom's weight loss surgery had gone horribly wrong

Doctors say it takes about six weeks to three months for incisions to heal following a gastric sleeve surgery. Six months ...

Why VA pays more in disability for sleep apnea than it does for some lost limbs

VA vowed to modernize its disability benefits system. As criticism from veterans and their advocates has mounted, efforts to move forward have stalled.
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Obstructive sleep apnea may be linked to microbleeds in the brain

Maybe you know you snore like a bear, but you don't feel much urgency to look into it. Or maybe you have been told to wear a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine for sleep apnea, but ...
Frontiers

Preemptive flurbiprofen axetil for sleep-pain-inflammation modulation after laparoscopic gynecological surgery: a prospective, parallel-group randomized controlled trial

Background: Postoperative pain, inflammation, and sleep disturbances commonly arise after laparoscopic gynecological surgery and are increasingly recognized as interconnected factors that impede ...
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UB Physicians Perform Landmark Surgical Procedure on Local Adolescent Sleep Apnea Patient for First Time

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­— Eighteen-year-old Rayshawn (Ray) Barrett hadn’t slept soundly in years. His obstructive sleep apnea was so pronounced that he was regularly falling asleep in class, his grades were ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB physicians perform landmark procedure on first adolescent sleep apnea patient in Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­— Eighteen-year-old Rayshawn (Ray) Barrett hadn’t slept soundly in years. His obstructive sleep apnea was so pronounced that he was regularly falling asleep in class, his grades were ...