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[Best Syndication News] The US government renamed the disabilityinfo.gov website to disability.gov to better serve over 50 million US citizens that are affected with a disability or are a caregiver to a person with a disability. The website is there for family members, veterans, employers, educators, and anyone that want to access disability related information. The new website combines information from 22 federal government agencies. The Labor Department is overseeing the website.

The new disability.gov website has social media tools that help users offer feedback and they can participate in online discussions as well as make suggestions for resources for the website. Users can subscribe to their Twitter feed, the RSS feed, and can add it to their social website such as Facebook or Myspace. The have a newsletter that can be signed up for as well as keep posted of new updates via email. There is also a blog as well to keep informed of anything new with the website or related agencies that would relate to disabilities.

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[Best Syndication News] A Class Action Lawsuit was filed in Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County against Denny's to force sodium content disclosure on each of its meal and put a warning notice of the high sodium content next to the meal that contains high levels. While most Americans with high blood pressure should have no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day, some of Denny's menu items have over 4,000 to 5,000 milligrams of sodium.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is working alongside New Jersey firms of Galex Wolf, LLC and Williams Cuker Berezofsky to get Denny's to alert customers of the sodium content in their meals.

Diets that have high sodium levels are known to promote high blood pressure, which further increases a person's chance of developing heart disease or stroke. Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States, and stroke is the third leading cause of death.

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[Best Syndication News] Patients that suffered a stroke and had been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) benefited using the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) by reducing the risk of death. This data was reported in a study that was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

"Our results suggest that patients with ischemic stroke and moderate to severe OSA showed an increased mortality risk," reported the lead author, Miguel Angel Martínez-García, M.D., of Requena General Hospital in Valencia, Spain. "CPAP treatment, although tolerated by only a small percentage of patients, is associated with a reduction in this excess risk and achieves a mortality [rate] similar to patients without OSA or with mild disease."

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[Best Syndication News] Breathing problems while sleeping in older men have been linked to an increased risk of developing abnormal heart rhythms (arrhthmias). Other names for sleep disordered breathing and sleep-related breathing disorders is sleep apnea. A report in the June 22nd issue of Archives of Internal Medicine discussed the relationship between the two conditions.

Reena Mehra, M.D., M.S., of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, and colleagues studied 2,911 men that underwent a sleep study between 2003 and 2005. They noted the how many times the men experienced an apnea event where there is a brief pause in breathing and hypopnea which is shallow breathing while they were sleeping. They also accounted if there were any periods of time when oxygen levels would dip below 90 percent.

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(Best Syndication) Although obesity is a leading cause of heart disease, paradoxically obese patients with cardiovascular disease are more likely to survive a major event. This obesity paradox has been studied since Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh published his findings in the journal Kidney International in 2003, but now researchers in Louisiana say that in obese patients, losing weight is optimum.

The new research conducted at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans by cardiologist Carl J. Lavie, MD corroborates Zadeh’s. The paradox is real. Obese heart patients respond better to strokes and heart attacks compared to normal or underweight patients.