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New Therapy Offers Relief From Severe Sleep Apnea

6Aug

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Lifestyle

New Therapy Offers Relief From Severe Sleep Apnea

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most common treatment for sleep apnea, a sleep disorder plaguing over 18 million Americans. It is also frequently misused, with only 50% of patients properly securing CPAP masks and utilizing CPAP machines. While mastering these tools may be a time- and money-saving venture, it's hardly the only option out there. In fact, a new therapy, called upper airway stimulation (UAS) therapy, may supplement (or, in some cases, entirely eliminate the need for) CPAP machines. "Implanted during an outpatient procedure, the device acts as a nerve stimulator, moving the tongue each time the patient takes a breath, shifting the palate forward and opening the upper airway," WTOP.com writes. "Patients have experienced an overall reduction of sleep apnea sev...

Child With Brain Injuries More Likely To Experience Attention Problems and Cognitive Impairments

5Aug

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Child With Brain Injuries More Likely To Experience Attention Problems and Cognitive Impairments

Adults experiencing severe attention deficit problems, emotional instability, and mild cognitive impairment issues likely had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a child, a new report has found. As Reuters reported, medical professionals have long known that children suffering from TBIs are more likely to have attention deficit problems as adults. A new study found that these minor lapses of attention are also related to cognitive problems and prolonged attention impairment issues, and these problems could take a long time to develop. The study, recently published in the academic journal , was conducted by a team of researchers from Marsh Konigs of VU University Amsterdam in The Netherlands. The researchers looked at 113 children, ages six to 13, who had suffered a TBI (with severity rangi...

Being Early to Rise Could Kill You Faster, Says a New Oxford University Study

5Aug

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Lifestyle

Being Early to Rise Could Kill You Faster, Says a New Oxford University Study

A neuroscientist from the University of Oxford says that lack of sleep is just as bad as smoking. Professor Russell Foster blames lack of sleep for a number of health problems, and he compares the brain activity of early risers to that of inebriated people. Foster is the director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, which has called for more people to get to bed early. Not only does lack of sleep do damage to the brain, he says, but working at night can cause premature aging and is linked to an increased risk of developing cancer, heart disease, and Type II diabetes. Claims like that are backed up by French research out of the University of Toulouse, which showed that workers who had been on the night shift for 10 years aged by an extra six-and-a-half years compared with ...

Apple Signs Lease to Set Up Office in Seattle High Rise

5Aug

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Business

Apple Signs Lease to Set Up Office in Seattle High Rise

Like many other Silicon Valley businesses, Apple is coming to Seattle. The tech giant has rented out about 30,000 square feet at Two Union Square, a downtown Seattle office tower. The tower is the third tallest in Seattle at 56 stories high. Apple has chosen spaces on part of the 45th floor and all of the 44th floor. Combined, they have enough space for between 120 and 200 workers, according to industry estimates. So far the company hasn't explained why they've expanded to this new location, but they did open an engineering office in Seattle back in November. Apple isn't the only company looking for permanent or temporary office space in Seattle. In addition to corporations like Microsoft and Amazon, Facebook and Google have also established a presence in the region. E-commerce giant ...

Jet.com, The Costco of Amazon Prime, Is Finally Open for Business

31Jul

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Business

Jet.com, The Costco of Amazon Prime, Is Finally Open for Business

Economists have been calling it the Costco version of Amazon, targeting the budget-conscious consumers who typically shop at discount stores without sacrificing the convenience that e-commerce businesses, like Amazon, provide. But will startup company Jet.com be able to live up to its hype and actually become viable competition for corporate giants like Wal-Mart, Target, and even Costco itself? Jet.com finally opened its virtual doors at the end of July after “months of testing and tweaking,” according to Newsday. It isn’t so much about the products that Jet is offering, nor is it about providing customers with simple browsing and fast shipping. Instead, Jet’s business model is what has industry experts talking; the e-commerce merchant has combined a subscription service similar to Amazo...

31Jul

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Lifestyle

Extreme Weather May be the New Norm

A bridge located on Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Los Angeles has recently been washed out, becoming a huge traffic disruption. This comes as an addition to a break in highway 89 due to a landslide, and flooding throughout the southern states. Extreme weather is becoming more and more common, and to say that it’s disconcerting may be an understatement. The I-10 bridge has been partially reopened after a week, though drivers will still deal with half hour delays while crews begin rebuilding the bridge. It will be months before it’s fully reopened. The bridge’s demise came after the region was hit with six inches of heavy rain, which weakened the supporting pillars. Some of those affected say that highway engineers likely did not expect a storm surge of that magnitude, but others say t...

FedEx Doesn’t Want to Ship Bioterror Germs Anymore, and That’s Not Good

30Jul

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Business

FedEx Doesn’t Want to Ship Bioterror Germs Anymore, and That’s Not Good

According to a letter from FedEx to federal regulators, the shipping giant is no longer willing to transport packages containing research specimens of bioterror pathogens. FedEx communications director Melissa Charbonneau said in a recent statement that the decision came in response to concerns over the military's recent shipments of anthrax. Now, the company is no longer planning to resume shipments of "select agents," the federal government's term for 65 different types of viruses, bacteria, and toxins highly regulated because of their bioterror potential. In addition to anthrax, Ebola, and the pathogens causing plague and botulism are also considered special agents. FedEx's refusal to ship special agents concerns major laboratory officials, who say that they primarily used FedEx to sh...

Financial Aid Agency Secretly Took Money From the Accounts of Thousands of College Applicants

30Jul

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Business

Financial Aid Agency Secretly Took Money From the Accounts of Thousands of College Applicants

The student loan debt crisis has hit its peak, according to many economists and education officials, and it almost seems like the crisis can't get any worse. Except that a business called Student Financial Aid Services, which "helps" people apply for financial aid for higher education, has apparently been taking money out of the accounts of its clients without their consent. According to the Washington Post, the company has taken out at least $5.2 million from the accounts of 100,000 people. After the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accused the company of this practice, it didn't take long for the Sacramento-based service to deny the allegations yet agree to refund the money to "settle the charges." According to the Huffington Post, the federal government is not afraid to shut ...

Banning Bottled Water Has Unintended Consequences, New Study Finds

30Jul

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Lifestyle

Banning Bottled Water Has Unintended Consequences, New Study Finds

It's common knowledge by now that bottled water is not good for the environment. Each year, only 23% of all plastic is recycled, which means that 38 billion water bottles -- more than $1 billion worth of plastic -- gets wasted. In one year, the bottled water industry uses up about 17 million barrels of oil, which is enough to fuel 1.3 million vehicles for a full year. In addition, the energy used to create bottled water could power 190,000 homes. In order to fight the unsustainable bottled water industry, many places have begun banning them. However, a new study has found that there are unintended consequences of banning bottled water, including an increase in the consumption of sugary beverages without a reduction in plastic waste. The University of Vermont study, which has been publish...

Body Positive YouTube Fashionista Busts Myths About Big Girls and Bikinis

29Jul

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Lifestyle

Body Positive YouTube Fashionista Busts Myths About Big Girls and Bikinis

Women, especially those who are overweight, are often told that they should dress for their body types. Sometimes larger girls are even publicly shamed for wearing revealing clothing. And YouTube vlogger Loey Lane thinks that's completely unfair. In her video "Why Fat Girls Shouldn't Wear Bikinis," the 22-year-old raises four arguments that she and other girls like her have been told about wearing skimpy beachwear -- and then smashes them all. To those who say that they don't like seeing a larger person in a bathing suit, Lane says, "Why is it that someone else can dictate that you are not allowed to put something on your body that makes them uncomfortable?" And Lane says that this kind of criticism extends to people of all sizes, and it needs to be shut down. "It is really scary to think ...