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D A T E |
| A Heart of Gold | 12-16-2009 |
| The Battle of a Different Bulge Pelvic Organ Prolapse |
11-04-2009 |
| Single Incision Surgery Twice as easy on the patient, Twice as challenging for the surgeon |
10-01-2009 |
| Oh, Baby! Bariatric surgery can help women lose weight and gain a baby |
07-22-2009 |
| ByPassing Diabetes New evidence shows weight-loss surgery improves or resolves insulin resistance |
07-15-2009 |
| Girl Interrupted: A husband's unconditional love and a doctor's compassion and skill help one woman regain a part of herself that she didn't even know was missing... until her wedding night. |
05-08-2008 |
| Abscessed Teeth: One Painful Reminder |
02-20-2008 |
| From Scratch Nine months after a devastating wreck, Dan Ryder’s pelvis was still in pieces. His new surgeon had a plan: start all over. |
08-29-2007 |
| Brain Drain Two lucky patients can hold their heads high (and one can even fly!) thanks to advances in treating hydrocephalus |
08-22-2007 |
| Car Wrecks: Saving Life and Limb |
06-27-2007 |
| Male Breasts Gynecomastia: When nature gets confused |
04-04-2007 |
| The Pork Taco, The Tapeworm and The Brain | 10-25-2006 |
| Inflammatory: The Other Breast Cancer |
10-18-2006 |
| Bathroom Break An array of treatments gives the restroom a rest |
07-26-2006 |
| Short Cut: Through the Nose When it comes to removing some skull-base tumors, the shortest distance between two points beats the old-fashioned way...by a nose. |
06-21-2006 |
| Propped Open: Pancreatic cancer patients can eat again, thanks to the small bowel stent |
10-05-2005 |
| More than a Headache | 08-29-2005 |
| Two Thumbs Up New Wrist Fix |
08-01-2005 |
| Straight from the hip: Joint replacements may provide relief to teens with arthritis |
06-24-2005 |
| Finè....
Kaput....
The End. A final goodbye to hemorrhoids |
03-18-2005 |
| NPH:
The Great Pretender It looks like Parkinson’s, acts like Alzheimer’s, seems like dementia. The difference? It’s treatable. |
03-11-2005 |
| A
Chance for Abigail Even before birth, she was dying. But Abigail and her surgeon had other plans for her future. |
01-07-2005 |
| Beat Headaches (By a Nose) | 12-02-2004 |
| Cosmetic Surgery on Persons of Color | 06-21-2004 |
| Flying Without a Net! A new surgery for women with stress incontinence restores freedom from shame, fear (and diapers). |
05-20-2004 |
| A Recipe for Healing: A new orthopedic frame helps surgeons mend broken bones more precisely |
03-22-2004 |
| Pumped Up Stroke patients gain mobility, calm spasms with new device |
01-15-2004 |
| Happy Endings: New surgical option for hemorrhoid sufferers |
11-20-2003 |
| A Burning Desire to Stop Heartburn Surgery may fix the reflux for good |
09-18-2003 |
| What's Afoot? | 08-14-2003 |
| Cool New 3-D Computer Games Nahhh, Just the Surgery of the Future |
07-17-2003 |
| Bending at the Knee: Alternative to Total Knee Replacement |
06-16-2003 |
| Ankle Arthritis | 05-15-2003 |
| Putting Metal to Metal Next Generation Hip Replacement Adds Years to Your Stride |
03-06-2003 |
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What a Difference
60 Minutes Can Make
It’s just an hour. At 2 a.m. on March 14, time changes as we “spring forward” one hour overnight. It wouldn’t seem to be that big of a deal, but it is according to researchers at the University of Michigan’s Center for Sleep Science. They have found that in the days immediately following the spring time change each year more people have serious car accidents, most likely due to the sleep loss and adjustments that our biological clocks must make to the new schedule.
To prepare for the time change, start going to bed and waking up 15 minutes earlier each day between now and the start of Daylight Savings Time. This helps reset your biological clock.
The spring time change isn’t the only time we should be concerned about our levels of sleep. According to the sleep researchers, adults ought to get 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep every night, but few of us do. This does more than leave us groggy in the mornings. Findings have shown that a lack of sleep may increase risks of obesity, diabetes, stroke and heart attacks.
The National Sleep Foundation offers this advice for healthy sleep:
