The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will clarify its instructions to medical examiners concerning screening drivers for sleep apnea. In response to congressional concern about sleep apnea ...

This story appears in the Feb. 22 print edition of Transport Topics. Trucking industry regulators have missed their projected publication dates for three proposed rules originally scheduled for ...

A promising new drug could put an end to cumbersome CPAP machines and allow millions of Americans to breathe easy and sleep soundly. Researchers at the biopharm company Apnimed have been developing a ...

Sleep apnea headaches usually happen upon waking. They often feel like a pressing pain on both sides of the head. A sleep apnea headache may occur 15 or more days per month and usually resolves within ...

Congressmen Larry Bucshon (left) and Daniel Lipinski (right). Two congressmen have told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that some of the organizations providing sleep apnea training to ...

What Is Central Sleep Apnea? Central sleep apnea (CSA) is when you regularly stop breathing while you sleep because your brain doesn’t tell your muscles to take in air. It’s different from obstructive ...

The condition can also cause complications including fatigue, high blood pressure, heart problems, and metabolic syndrome, but the causes and risk factors vary. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most ...