WASHINGTON - Shakespeare once called sleep the "balm of hurt minds." Bodies, too, apparently. People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Sleep.
The findings in the 18-year study confirm smaller studies that have indicated an increased risk of death for people with apnea, also known as sleep-disordered breathing.
"This is not a condition that kills you acutely. It is a condition that erodes your health over time," Dr. Michael J. Twery, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, said in a telephone interview.
People with such disorders "have been sleep deprived for perhaps very long periods of time, they are struggling to sleep. If this is happening night after night, week after week, on top of all our other schedules, this is a dangerous recipe," said Twery, whose center is part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The institute estimates that 12 million to 18 million people in the U.S. have moderate to severe apnea. The condition is not always detected because the sufferer is asleep when the problem occurs and it cannot be diagnosed during a routine office visit with a doctor. Researchers tested the patients for sleep-disordered breathing in the laboratory and then followed them over several years.
Bashas' grocery stores in Arizona have pulled all Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers from the shelves after U.S. Food and Drug Administration tests showed some tested positive for salmonella bacteria.
The peppers were also pulled from Bashas'-owned Food City and AJ's stores.
Bashas' spokeswoman Kristy Nied says the FDA recently tested produce at the company's warehouse and told them Friday of the positive test.
Bashas' has sanitized its display cases and replaced the peppers with U.S.-grown produce. Stores will give refunds for peppers bought before Aug. 2.
The peppers came from one of two distributors, one in Arizona and one in California.
ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 - about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials.
"This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
Some have said that we are undergoing a devious plan of depopulation in the world, in which the secret government and the elite have decided there are too many people on the earth and billions must die so they can continue with their plans of utopia. I've heard these ideas mentioned again and again in the last years, but truly never gave much credence to the idea, until now.
In exploring the world, we all gather little truths, ideas that are not held by the masses, but we don't always put those puzzle pieces together. Our society has done a fine job in teaching us to separate facts, to focus on the small pieces and not see the bigger picture. We like to categorize things and events, as though neatness and organization counts when attempting to understand reality and we cling to the structures around us, fearful of change. We keep our horror aimed at the movie screen, fearing deviant maniacs and monsters, perhaps subconsciously knowing that if we disconnect from that screen, we may encounter the real monsters, which look just like us.
According to CNN and a study published in the
Journal of Allergy and Immunology, milk allergy is the most common food allergy, having established itself in the number one position in the last ten years. Interestingly, a new protein was introduced into the American milk supply just over ten years ago. Children with a milk allergy see the proteins found in milk as "foreign" which in turn triggers an allergic reaction. Are these recently introduced proteins responsible for the milk allergy epidemic? You decide. What the leading pediatric allergists (funded by Big Food and Big Pharma) failed to tell us ...
In the early 1990s, one of the world's largest chemical companies, Monsanto Corporation, in conjunction with a global pharmaceutical corporation, invented a drug that could be injected into cows to increase their milk production.
Mexico City - Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm.
The salmonella sample that one U.S. official called "a smoking gun" was taken from a water tank that had not been used for more than two months to irrigate crops, said the director of Mexico's Farm Food Quality Service, Enrique Sanchez.
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Surgeons have performed the world's first double arm transplant.
The 16-hour operation was carried out last Friday on a farm worker who lost both arms in an accident.
The 54-year-old man was given the arms of a teenage boy who is believed to have died in a road crash.
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When flu season strikes, the first line of defense for seniors, who are considered among the most vulnerable, is a flu vaccine.
But a new study by Group Health suggests that for seniors, a vaccine doesn't offer as much protection as originally thought.
The study, which will be published in Saturday's issue of the medical journal The Lancet, found no link between flu vaccinations and the risk of pneumonia - a common and potentially life-threatening complication of the flu.
Chickens that are vaccinated against bird flu are supposed to be immune to the disease.
But hundreds of chickens at a poultry farm in southern Vietnam have died of avian influenza - even though the farm owner had earlier reported that the birds were vaccinated against the disease, an official said yesterday.
Since late last month, several hundreds of the 3,000 chickens in the flock have died at the farm in Tan Lan commune in Long An province, 50 km west of Ho Chi Minh City.
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A chemist shop worker suffering from flu died after accidentally overdosing on paracetamol - by just half a tablet, an inquest heard.
Deborah Robinson suffered liver and kidney failure after taking sixteen-and-a-half pills in two days.
The 37-year-old, who had not been taking any other over-the-counter remedies, sought help after realising the mistake but died five days later.
Comment: Let us clarify that last statement.
There is no pharmaceutical medication that is 100 percent safe. And they seem to be coming less and less safe as time goes by.
Comment: Let us clarify that last statement.
There is no pharmaceutical medication that is 100 percent safe. And they seem to be coming less and less safe as time goes by.