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Many people suffer from the problem of snoring and eventually getting up with an irritable mood in the morning. These are the common symptoms of a condition called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which is a type of sleeping disorder and must not be left unattended. If a person ignores these problems, it might result in high blood pressure and stroke, along with heart attacks and road accidents.

Sleep problems can also lead to depression and poor performance at work. Over 12 million people in the United States suffer from OSA, according to the American Sleep Association.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that a salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios has infected at least 11 people in nine states in the US, with two of them landing up in the hospital due to salmonella infection. Following the fears of salmonella contamination, the grower has recalled pistachios with the brand names of Paramount Farms, Trader Joe's and Wonderful.

The CDC said people in the age group of 9 to 69 years reported falling ill on December 12 with similar symptoms. Among the affected state are Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Virginia and Washington. A detailed list of the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo and the number of cases in each state is available on the Case Count Map page.

A new research may help people who are living with vision problems. Two research teams have discovered a creative way that may help people regenerate their own eye lens.

First team’s researchers have created a surgical technique that they claim can reset stem cell in the human eye to take the place of damaged eye tissue. The technique is capable of replacing tissues damaged by cataracts or an eye disease.

The second research team from Japan has developed a new way that turns ordinary skin cells into different kinds of eye cells.

Eye experts believe both the new techniques can replace clumsy cataract or cornea surgery. Both the ways show therapeutic potential of stem cells, said Dr. Julie Daniels, an ophthalmologist at University College London.

It is never an easy task for doctors to examine ticklish patients as it usually leads to giggling and squirming. It not only makes the sufferer uncomfortable, but also affects the treatment. But now, British researchers have found a novel way to overcome this problem.

They have developed a technique called ‘hand sandwich’, which can help doctors examine a ticklish patient without unwanted giggling, as per a report featured in The New England Journal of Medicine.

By saving a seven-year-old boy’s life, Jedi has showed why dogs are human’s real-life guardians. Luke Nuttall is the boy suffering from type 1 diabetes, a painful disease with no cure. Luke’s pancreas stopped producing insulin, which further changes glucose level in his body. It becomes dangerous when the boy is sleeping, but Luke’s dog Jedi can detect these changes by sniffing them.

Dorrie Nuttall, Luke’s mother, discussed a recent incident on social media where Jedi saved the boy’s life at nighttime when other family members were sleeping. She said the family came to know about seven-year-old boy’s serious condition when they found Jedi lying on top of Dorrie.

According to a latest study, kidney disease patients could live far longer if they get a transplant even from an incompatible living donor instead of waiting and wasting time in search of a good match.

The results may offer another choice to kidney patients, who could otherwise lose their life while waiting for a well-matched deceased donor.

To be specific, experts said that the results have come up as a ray of hope for ‘highly sensitized’ transplant candidates.