News
                        Respiratory/Sleep  
                     
                     Time Magazine Declares Sleep the New Health Frontier
May 5, 2014
                     
                        NEW YORK – Sleep docs and sleep lab directors can now say, “I told you so,” thanks to an April 2014 Time Magazine feature that boldly declares sleep as nothing less than the “New Health Frontier.” The 1,300-plus word article in the vene                     
					                   
                                                News
                        Respiratory/Sleep  
                     
                     NY Train Tragedy Spawns Mandatory Sleep Testing
April 28, 2014
                     
                        NEW YORK – In the wake of last year’s Bronx commuter train derailment that killed four passengers, Metro-North officials have issued a directive that would require the 350 engineers who work for the railway to be evaluated in the coming month                     
					                   
                                                News
                        Respiratory/Sleep  
                     
                     Sleep Companies Prep for Medtrade as OSA-related Ailments Grow
April 21, 2014
                     
                        TAIWAN – A diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea may raise the risk of osteoporosis, particularly among women or older individuals, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolis                     
					                   
                                                News
                        Respiratory/Sleep  
                     
                     Driver in Bronx Train Tragedy Had Severe Sleep Apnea
April 14, 2014
                     
                        NEW YORK – The driver of a train that derailed late last year in New York City, killing four passengers, reportedly suffered from “severe sleep apnea.” According to the National Transportation Safety Board, William Rockefeller, the engineer                     
					                   
                                                News
                        Respiratory/Sleep  
                     
                     DME Supplier and its Involvement with the Home Sleep Test
April 14, 2014
                     
                        AMARILLO, TX – A DME supplier can have some involvement with an overnight oxygen qualification test. The supplier can: (i) own the oximeter; (ii) deliver the oximeter to the Medicare beneficiary’s home; (iii) pick up the oximeter the next mor                     
					                   
                                                News
                        Respiratory/Sleep  
                     
                     Pneumonia Risk Goes Up for Sleep Apnea Sufferers
March 10, 2014
                     
                        LAS VEGAS – New research from Taiwanese researchers suggests that sleep apnea sufferers “appear to have” a higher risk of pneumonia. The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and summarized in Medical News Today (MNT), i