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Tom Le Goff/Getty Images Sleep apnea, estimated to affect 18 million Americans, causes sufferers to stop breathing multiple times an hour overnight, disrupting sleep and contributing to other health conditions. A new device implanted under the skin could soon be an alternative to a bulky mask for the millions of Americans with sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a disorder that ...

Mark Bonifacio/New York Daily News Carmelo Anthony (r.) gets little help from fellow starters Tyson Chandler and Andrea Bargnani. GRIZZLIES 95, KNICKS 87 Only James Dolan knows what the immediate future holds for Mike Woodson, who seems to try a different lineup every game, which inevitably leads to the same result. The Knicks, no matter which five are on the ...

Felix Lam/for New York Daily News Rescue workers help passengers who had been on the Metro-North train when it derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx. Sleep apnea may have caused the locomotive engineer in the deadly Metro-North crash to zone out just before the train tumbled off the tracks. William Rockefeller is expected to undergo an evaluation ...

Andy Ryan/Getty Images Pilots with a high body mass index will need to be screened for sleep apnea before they are given medical certification to fly, the FAA announced. Plus-size pilots are getting a wake-up call from the Federal Aviation Administration, in the form of a new policy that would bar those with sleep apnea from flying. The airway-obstructing sleep ...