Tag: Awareness

SAN DIEGO – For half of Americans, stress over the past year of the pandemic is negatively impacting the quality of their sleep, according to the results of nationwide survey of 1,000 adults conducted by ResMed.  While COVID-related stresses are often noticeable, one of the biggest stealers of sleep might be something people can’t easily detect: sleep apnea, the company says.  “While data show that stress and worry are key factors impacting many people’s...

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. - Sigvaris Group participated in World Lymphedema Day on March 6, helping to spread awareness and support the search for a cure. “As an advocate for the millions living with lymphedema, our company seeks to put lymphedema research front and center on the global healthcare stage through our long-standing relationships with nonprofits, researchers and the medical community,” said Barbara Osborne, CEO and president of Sigvaris Group North America. World Lymphedema Day...

CHICAGO - The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation has launched a new educational website: AboutPF.org. The website educates individuals about the deadly disease and provides a downloadable Pulmonary Fibrosis Risk List Worksheet to help them facilitate conversations about symptoms and risk factors with their providers. The website also offers a way to find a local pulmonologist with experience in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary fibrosis through the PFF Care Center Network. More than 200,000 Americans...

DARIEN, Ill. - The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has formed a new patient-focused membership organization, the American Alliance for Healthy Sleep, to improve the lives of sleep apnea sufferers through advocacy, education and support. AASM seeks healthcare providers and patients to become members of the new organization. “The American Academy of Sleep Medicine established the American Alliance for Healthy Sleep to bring health care providers and patients with sleep disorders together to...

AMSTERDAM - Royal Philips has launched a “global movement” to raise awareness for COPD ahead of World COPD Day on Nov. 15. Philips is collaborating with marathoner Russell Winwood, who has COPD, to create motivational content designed to help educate, engage and empower COPD patients and their caregivers. The company is working with Winwood to share his personal journey with other COPD patients to inspire them to live their lives to the fullest. Six months after his diagnosis, he completed...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - Sunovion Pharmaceuticals and the COPD Foundation have launched a new video series, Reel COPD, to share the first-hand stories of patients and their caregivers as they cope with a chronic, progressive disease. The first three videos in the series are now live on COPDTogether.com, and build on existing tools and resources available to patients and caregivers. Sunovion and the COPD Foundation initiated COPD Together in 2013 to empower and educate caregivers about managing COPD....

WASHINGTON - The American Sleep Apnea Association and numerous partners will launch Sleeptember next month. The year-long, patient-led, patient-supported campaign will create online and community events to raise awareness of the public health impact of sleep loss, and will raise funds for medical research and advocacy efforts, according to Sleep Review. The campaign will center around the soon-to-go-live website www.sleeptember.org. The association modeled the campaign after Movember, a campaign...

I shouldn't have been surprised this morning, when I was watching the Today show, eating my granola (homemade) and drinking my coffee (freshly ground and French press brewed), to see a ResMed CPAP mask. Yesterday, news of a new study saying CPAP therapy can help to ward off memory decline burned up the Interwebs (141 articles at last check)—and the Today show was on it. All this publicity on the study got Managing Editor Theresa and I thinking: Will staving off memory decline and possibly Alzheimer's...

RALEIGH, N.C. - The Sound Sleep Institute, a sleep consulting and treatment program from IntegraSleep and Active Healthcare, has released “All About That Sleep,” a music video that parodies the hit single, “All About That Bass,” to celebrate Sleep Awareness Week. The video showcases a common occurrence in undiagnosed cases of sleep apnea—patients are unaware of the sleep disorder until their bed partner recognizes the signs like snoring and pauses in breathing. “Sleep...

I know I'm not the first person to have my sleep patterns interrupted by a new baby, but if you knew how I slept before said baby, you'd feel for me, I swear. Before said baby, I was the type of person who went to bed at 9 p.m.—9:30 p.m. the latest. I'd read a few pages of The New Yorker and fall asleep uninterrupted until 6:30 a.m.—maybe 6 a.m. if I was going for a morning run. That's right, I got about nine hours of sleep nearly every night. Enter said baby, and I'm getting six hours...