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Article: New centers for sleep disorders opened.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 10, 2004
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2004 NOV 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minnesota-based Mercy & Unity Hospitals have launched a new program to identify and treat people who have breathing problems that affect sleeping.
The hospitals recently opened Sleep Disorders Centers at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids in the hospital's new Heart & Vascular Center, and later this year they plan to open a second location at Columbia Park Medical Group's new facility.
"Many people are suffering from sleep disorders and do not know it; it's an under diagnosed condition," says Debra Skees, manager of respiratory services at Mercy & Unity. "People are being treated for hypertension or depression, and ...