Northshore Sleep Medicine
I was interviewed by Web MD for this article on how to evaluate if your sleepiness is a sign of a serious disorder. If it is not, there are lots of good tips and strategies for how to have more energy during the day. http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/excessive-sleepiness-10/myths-facts?src=RSS_PUBLIC
If there is one piece of wisdom that doctors have gained over the past 20 years, it is: that the slower the heart beats, the better. Whenever someone has a heart attack or is diagnosed with coronary heart disease, then a good doctor puts the patient on medications that lower the heart rate (usually drugs [...]
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124951605785809351.html) ran a front page story on Micheal Jackson and his use of Propofol (Diprivan) as a sleeping agent. For those interested in this issue, I blogged about it on July 23, 2009.
See below for a link to an article in Forbes for which I was interviewed about sleep troubles. I give many useful tips for how to improve your sleep. http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/03/sleep-disorder-medication-lifestyle-health-sleep-insomnia.html
Use of Propofol (also know as Diprivan) in the home has no place in treatment of insomnia or any other sleep disorder. It can, in fact, lead to fatal respiratory depression or fatal sleep apnea.
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-07-22-insomnia_N.htm) interviewed me about the treatment of insomnia. It is good to see that the media are taking sleep seriously and trying hard to inform the public.
Once again, the Chicago Tribune has run a piece on sleep. The Sunday health columnist, Julie Deardorff, (jdeardorff@tribune.com) devoted her column in yesterday’s Sunday paper to reinforcing what we sleep doctors know so well: That sleep is essential to good health and that Americans underestimate its importance. The National Sleep Foundation has gathered information for years that shows [...]
