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Sleep and Heart Health Facts

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 [...]

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Chicago Tribune Reports on Sleep Disorders

The Chicago Tribune ran a piece yesterday with the headline:  Sleep Disorders: Some facilities try new home-style approach. There wasn’t much about home testing. It was more about how common sleep apnea is (TRUE) and how under-diagnosed it is (VERY TRUE)  and about how there are sleep labs opening up all over Chicago.  The reporter, Robert Mitchum [...]

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