3 Treatment Options For Obstructive Sleep Apnea

According to the American Sleep Apnea Organization, 22 million Americans suffer from a sleep disorder called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This type of sleep apnea happens when the throat muscles relax during sleep. When the throat muscles relax, the upper airway becomes obstructed, which prevents a person from breathing normally as they sleep. Symptoms often include loud snoring and intermittent pauses in breathing. Some people with OSA wake up gasping and choking. [Read More]

4 Reasons to Install a Wheelchair Stairlift Inside Your Home

If you use a wheelchair all of the time or just sometimes, you might already have a wheelchair lift installed in your home. Unfortunately, though, there are a lot of people who don't have these lifts. If you are one of them, you should consider the following reasons why installing a wheelchair stairlift in your home can be a great investment. 1. Avoid Having to Move If you live in a two-story home, you might have thought about moving into a different home now that you need to use a wheelchair. [Read More]

Older Parent Not Hearing As Well? Some Tips To Help Them

If you notice your older parent is talking much louder than normal and is constantly asking you to repeat yourself, they likely have some type of hearing loss. If so, below are some tips on how you can help them so they can get their hearing back. Make Sure It Is Not Ear Wax The problem could not be with their hearing—they may have excessive ear wax clogging up their ears. [Read More]

What's in That Urine? How Mass Spectrometry Can Find Out

If you watched the most recent summer Olympics, you might have heard commentators discussing performance-enhancing drugs. These are drugs designed to give athletes an advantage over other athletes. However, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is not allowed in the Olympics. The world Olympics community takes performance-enhancement abuse very seriously, and they will stop at nothing to weed out those athletes—and teams—that are abusing them. The new weapon designed to identify illegal performance-enhancing drugs is called mass spectrometry. [Read More]