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The medical establishment is ill-suited to deal with America's obesity epidemic
You did a write up on HBO's documentary "The Weight of the Nation" in which you called our obesity epidemic a wake up call for America ("Salad bars take root," May 1). Nothing new here. The alarm bells have been sounding for a while now. I am an...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Heart Failure, Epidemics and Plagues, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals
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Robert Alexander "Sandy" Goll, educator
Robert Alexander "Sandy" Goll, a retired city public school educator who was active in Scouting, died March 12 of sleep apnea at his Rodgers Forge home. He was 63. The son of a manufacturing executive and a homemaker, Mr. Goll was born in Baltimore...Tags: Norwich, Roland Park
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The power of sleep
Are you tired, run-down, listless? The answer to your problem is probably not in a little brown bottle. It could be as simple as a good night’s sleep. But for 45 million Americans, that’s an elusive dream. Even worse, sleep deprivation,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Social Sciences, Obesity, Behavioral Conditions, Pharmaceuticals
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Dr. Lewis B. Newberg
Baltimore Sun reporterDr. Lewis B. Newberg, a retired ear, nose and throat specialist who turned his personal battle with sleep apnea and snoring into a book in which he combined humor and practical medical advice for those similarly afflicted, died Oct. 22 of heart failure at...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Heart Failure, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Ear, Nose, and Throat
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Dr. Lewis B. Newberg, expert on sleep apnea
Dr. Lewis B. Newberg, a retired ear, nose and throat specialist who turned his personal battle with sleep apnea and snoring into a book in which he combined humor and practical medical advice for those similarly afflicted, died Oct. 22 of heart failure at...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Heart Failure, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Ear, Nose, and Throat
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Font Hill residents upset with BGE over chronic power issues
There have always been power blips in Font Hill, not to mention sporadic, hours-long outages.
Residents of the Ellicott City neighborhood have generally just huffed in frustration and went about their business.
Then, in August, Hurricane Irene brought...Tags: Allan H. Kittleman, Companies and Corporations, Howard County, Ellicott City, Hurricane Irene (2011)
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There is no method to the madness of Maryland Medicaid
Gene Ransom, CEO of the Maryland State Medical Society, writes in his article to the Sun ("Don't cut services first," Aug 29) that thousands of vulnerable Marylanders stand to receive inadequate, substandard health care for years to come if the state's...Tags: Electronics, Hospitals and Clinics, Insulin, Government Health Care, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Symptoms of sleep apnea
Symptoms of sleep apnea: Excessive daytime sleeping Loud snoring Gasping or choking awakening Awakenings for uncertain reasons Restless sleep Nonrefreshing sleep Poor memory Poor intellectual function irritability Personality changes...Tags: Physical Conditions
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New sleep wellness center at Laurel Regional offers expanded services to the sleep deprived
Beginning in 1995, 46-year-old Anita Sills of Laurel developed sleeping problems that worsened to the point that she would wake up in the middle of the night every two or three hours.
"I thought I was having nightmares because my heart would be beating...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, High Blood Pressure, Physical Conditions, Heart and Circulatory System, Lungs and Airways
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Is obesity grounds for taking away a child?
In a July 13 opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a pediatrician and a lawyer from Harvard suggest that child-protective services take severely overweight children away from negligent parents. I do think this question should...Tags: Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Mental Health, Obesity, Asthma
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The power of naps
When is it OK to catch some shut-eye on the job?
Workplace snoozing has been the topic of an awful lot of water-cooler jesting lately — at least among those awake enough to remember their conversations.
First, there were a rash of reported...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Emergency Planning, Companies and Corporations, Employees, Employment
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Made (once again) in America
When NovaSom Inc. was looking to produce its sleep apnea diagnostic kits, the Glen Burnie-based company didn't look to factories in Asia or Mexico. Instead, it found a manufacturer right off the Beltway in Woodlawn.
NovaSom chose Zentech Manufacturing...Tags: Federal Reserve, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Companies and Corporations, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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