The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will clarify its instructions to medical examiners concerning screening drivers for sleep apnea. In response to congressional concern about sleep apnea ...

Obstructive sleep apnea not only causes disordered breathing and daytime fatigue, but weak muscles and increased fracture ...

Apnea is the medical term used to describe slowed or stopped breathing. Apnea can affect people of all ages, and the cause depends on the type of apnea you have. Apnea usually occurs while you’re ...

Congressmen Larry Bucshon (left) and Daniel Lipinski (right). Two congressmen have told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that some of the organizations providing sleep apnea training to ...

Sleep apnea is a common and serious sleep disorder that causes your breathing to become shallow or stop completely during sleep. In some cases, this pause in breathing (called apnea) can last 10 ...

Sleep Apnea Solution author Dylan Petkus, MD, has developed a non-device, behavior-based alternative approach to sleep apnea.

The condition can also cause complications including fatigue, high blood pressure, heart problems, and metabolic syndrome, but the causes and risk factors vary. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most ...