The Essentials of Sleep Technology: Hypersomnia slide set includes a history of the diagnosis of hypersomnias with a focus on narcolepsy.

Two percent of medical students in a survey said they planned to go into general internal medicine, according to a study published Wednesday, September 10, 2008, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

NIH announced a new program that supports the careers of researchers through student loan debt forgiveness.

The Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center is seeking graduate-level students in the health professions to apply for its one-year clinical research training program.

Trailblazer has issued the valuation, or payment amounts, it will recognize for the home monitoring G-Codes.

The presentations in the Scoring Workshop Series give an in-depth discussion of the new rules for scoring.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2009 AASM Mini-Fellowship Program for International Scholars.

Study is the first to determine the prevalence of periodic limb movements during sleep in a population-based sample using standardized criteria.

Neuroimaging during verbal fluency tasks also shows that six weeks of sleep therapy can restore altered cognitive processes in people with insomnia.

The prevalence of carotid atherosclerosis increases significantly with the severity of snoring.

The inability to detect changes in skin temperature may contribute to the poor sleep of older adults who have insomnia.

Percentage of daytime sleeping during rehabilitation is a significant independent predictor of immediate functional recovery and of recovery after three months.

Gain valuable feedback from your patients through these standardized surveys.

The AMA's Practice Management Center (PMC) invites its members to join a new effort that will help physicians fight for accurate health care claims payments and reduce the administrative costs involved in submitting claims.

Friday, August 29, 2008, is the deadline to submit comment on the DME LCD.

Legislation was introduced in the Washington, D.C. City Council that proposes to define the practice of polysomnography and create a system of licensure for polysomnographic technologists.

State-by-state information on current statutory requirements for sleep technologists is now available on the Government Relations section on the AASM's Web site.

The AASM, in conjunction with The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, has developed a draft performance measurement set addressing the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Two courses provide exceptional learning opportunities for sleep technologists.

The Clinical Evaluation Webinar series is designed to aid the sleep medicine specialist in the initial approach to sleep disorders patients.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced August 15 a proposed rule to require health care providers to shift to a new, greatly expanded health care coding system beginning in October 2011.

Fellow status in the AASM is a unique honor which recognizes special competency in sleep medicine and significant contributions to the field.

Comments must be submitted by Friday, August 29, 2008.

According to notices, all four DME MACs - NHIC, NGS, Noridian and CIGNA - will delay implementation of all criteria for positive airway pressure (PAP) devices for obstructive sleep apnea.scheduled to take effect September 1, 2008.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has launched a new webinar series, Essentials of Sleep Technology: Exploring the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events.