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5 Things to learn from Paula Deen’s Diabetes (1/18/12)

January 18, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Media Diabetes Paula Deen has diabetes – for three years. Just  as in the movie Casablanca, people are shocked! Shocked!  But before demonizing Ms. Deen and her butter filled southern recipes, let’s look at what the public should gain from  this overhyped, simplified media story: Diabetes – even “adult onset” type II –  is highly […]

Can kids get addicted to the internet? (1/16/12)

January 16, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Compulsion or Addiction? Can you get addicted to internet use? A new Chinese study in PLoS 1 argues that it certainly happens; that it clearly changes brain and behavior; and that the brain changes seen are in many ways similar to what happens with drug addiction and gambling. Kids Who Can’t Stop The adolescents – aged 14 […]

Rebound insomnia (1/13/12)

January 13, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

When You Can’t Stop Using Sleeping Pills You can’t sleep and you must.  You start to take sleeping pills. They work – for a while.  Then you find you need more. You try some nights without those pills. You can’t sleep at all – until you take the pills again. You’ve got rebound insomnia.  Join […]

After Iraq and Afghanistan – veterans’ health, PTSD, and sleep apnea (12/5/11)

December 5, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

The Wars Are Not Over US veterans are in trouble.  Veterans returning to the work place are finding it difficult to find jobs with their unemployment rate north of 12%, versus the (falsely low) figure of 9% for the country.  One reason is many have come back ill.  What sort of ailments is the question. […]

Is Intermezzo the right kind of sleep medicine? (11/29/11)

November 29, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Music for the Sleepless, or Disharmony? It’s not every day the FDA approves a new drug – especially a new sleeping pill.  Intermezzo is a term that refers to a separate piece that plays in between acts – especially in a musical performance like opera. And now it’s being repositioned to name a “new” kind […]

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