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ASBA Diplomate Featured in NY Times as NFL Comes Under Health Microscope
With the Super Bowl coming up on Feb 3, 2019, the New York Times tackled the problem of obesity in retired National Football League (NFL) players. The Jan 17 NY Times article by reporter Ken Belson po...
Harvard Women’s Health Watch: Be Careful When it Comes to OTC Sleep Aids
Harvard Women’s Health Watch, a division of Harvard Medical School’s publishing division, is encouraging readers to go beyond over the counter (OTC) sleep aids. In a Dec 2018 article (Drugstore sleep ...
Sleep Your Way to the Top?
The New Yorker cast a folksy eye on sleep in its Dec 10 issue. The article by Zoe Heller, entitled Why We Sleep and Why We Often Can’t, discusses the still persistent belief that high achievers should...
Spying, Buying, and Discomfort: CPAP Trifecta Points Toward Oral Appliances
CARROLLTON, TX – Is it better to rent or buy a CPAP? Sometimes it depends on the type of insurance. A lengthy article from ProPublica and NPR investigated the rent/buy question, in addition to the not...
SomnoMed Opts to Close All Renew Sleep Solutions (RSS) Locations; CEO Steps Down
SYDNEY, AU – SomnoMed Limited will close all Renew Sleep Solutions (RSS) operations by the end of 2018. The announcement from SomnoMed Chairman Dr. Peter Neustadt came earlier this week during t...
ASBA Evolution – Getting the NFL on Board
How did David Gergen, a nationally respected dental lab technician, manage to find former National Football League (NFL) players interested in helping him spread awareness about dental sleep medicine?...
ASBA Loses Founding Member
The American Sleep and Breathing Academy has lost one of its founding members. Dr. Elliott Joel Alpher passed away suddenly at his home on Saturday, November 10, 2018. Dr. Alpher, DDS, DACP served the...
Utah-based imagn Solutions Gets Dentists on the Sleep Medicine Bandwagon
Well before the American Dental Association (ADA) made their strong recommendation for oral appliances last year, dental sleep medicine showed no signs of stopping its steady climb into the medical ma...
Medicare: Reasonable and Useful Lifetime (RUL) – What is THAT?
In writing this article, I have partnered with my dear friend, Jan Palmer. Hopefully, together, we can shed some light on the complex subject of Medicare “same or similar” regulations, which have rec...