Sleep Apnea May Be Tied to 'Silent' Strokes, Study Finds
HealthDay via Yahoo! News Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:35 PM PST
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep apnea, the disorder marked by abnormal pauses in breathing during sleep, is already known to boost the risk of stroke. Now, a new study links sleep apnea to so-called silent strokes, in which there is tissue death in the brain without symptoms. |
Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88
Reuters via Yahoo! India News Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:18 PM PST
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, once described as "Mozart of Poetry", died on Wednesday, after suffering from lung cancer. She was 88. "She died quietly, in her sleep," Szymborska's assistant Michal Rusinek was quoted as saying by the state news agency PAP. The shy poet became a reluctant celebrity when she became the fourth Pole to win the literary Nobel ... |
Sleep Apnea May Be Linked to 'Silent Strokes'
ThirdAge Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:50 PM PST
 Sleep apnea, a condition characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing during sleep, has been tied to symptomless but dangerous strokes known as “silent strokes.†WebMD and Health Day report that Dr. Jessica Kepplinger, of Dresden University Stroke Center at the University of Technology in Germany, and her colleagues studied 56 men and women who had previously suffered a stroke. Using a ... |
'Alcatraz' - Cal Sweeney recap
TheCelebrityCafe.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:31 PM PST
Matthew Dagen This week's episode of Alcatraz focuses on bank robber Cal Sweeney. The opening of the episode shows a very well dressed man walking into a bank and heading down the safe deposit boxes with a middle aged teller. As Sweeney and the teller are starting to get hot and heavy, he pulls out a needle and puts her to sleep. matthew.dagen@gmail.com read more |
Truckie spends night in cabin
Toowoomba Chronicle Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:07 PM PST
A TRUCK driver was forced to sleep in his cabin overnight after he drove into floodwaters near Roma and became stuck. |
Sleep Apnea Linked to Silent Strokes
WebMD Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:56 PM PST
A common sleep disorder is associated with an increased risk of symptomless, but serious, strokes called “silent strokes,†German researchers report. |
Mac OS X 10.7.3 hits Software Update, ready to plug bugs on your Wednesday
Engadget Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:51 PM PST
How about a 700+ megabyte download to spice up your Wednesday? Apple's just unleashed an update to Lion , bumping its feline all the way up 10.7.3. Those braving the rather portly update can look forward to a bevy of new languages, a new version of Safari (5.1.3) and a fix for a nasty WiFi reconnection bug upon waking from sleep. Also buried in the release notes are RAW support for "more cameras ... |
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