Alentejo
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Alentejo, Portugal A historical province, the name for which is derived from
além Tejo ‘Beyond the (River) Tagus’.
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Narcolepsy Confirmed as an Auto-Immune Disorder.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 5/6/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Narcolepsy Network NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Narcolepsy Network announced today to its members and...published research that clearly establishes that narcolepsy is an auto-immune disorder. An autoimmune...
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Narcolepsy Network Announces Suddenly Sleepy Saturday - a Day for Narcolepsy Awareness.
News Wire article from: AScribe Medicine News Service; 3/3/2008; 700+ words
; Byline: Narcolepsy Network NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Narcolepsy Network, Inc., announced today that...as Suddenly Sleepy Saturday - A Day for Narcolepsy Awareness. This date marks the 6th day...
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Narcolepsy Network Announces Suddenly Sleepy Saturday - A Day for Narcolepsy Awareness: Saturday, March 7.
News Wire article from: AScribe Medicine News Service; 3/2/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Narcolepsy Network NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.H., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Narcolepsy Network Inc. announced today that it has...as Suddenly Sleepy Saturday - A Day for Narcolepsy Awareness. This date marks the 7th day...
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Narcolepsy pharmacotherapy: a review with emphasis on narcolepsy-related excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy.
Magazine article from: Sleep Review; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Narcolepsy is a chronic and substantially disabling...together an all-inclusive definition of narcolepsy due to its protean and evolving clinical...guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of narcolepsy. The goal of this article is to provide...
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Narcolepsy. (Featured CME Topic: Narcolepsy).
Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: Narcolepsy is a severely debilitating neurologic...the sometimes debilitating nature of narcolepsy symptoms, the disease may go undiagnosed...complaints. Many of the classic symptoms of narcolepsy, such as excessive daytime sleepiness...
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NARCOLEPSY CAN BE TREATED, NOT CURED.(Living)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 11/23/2004; 700+ words
; Q.: I just found out that I have Narcolepsy. My doctor said that it was in the...should I expect in the future? A.: Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive daytime...unable to move. In individuals with Narcolepsy, this "paralysis" of muscles may...
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Narcolepsy science reawakens: insights create a new order for disordered sleep.
Magazine article from: Science News; 6/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...boy had experienced a dramatic onset of severe narcolepsy. After standard narcolepsy drugs failed to relieve his symptoms, however...system. Zuberi was betting on a hypothesis that narcolepsy results from an immune attack that impairs the...
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Narcolepsy is an Autoimmune Disorder, Stanford Researcher Says.
Business Wire; 5/3/2009; 700+ words
; ...the culprit behind the sleep disorder narcolepsy. Now Mignot and his collaborators have...experts' long-held suspicion that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease. The work...main pieces of what's happening in narcolepsy," said Mignot, a Howard Hughes Medical...
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Narcolepsy - Entry-Point to a Lucrative Fatigue-Associated Market - Provigil (Modafinil), Expected To Launch In 2012.
M2 Presswire; 2/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...February 2009-Research and Markets: Narcolepsy - Entry-Point to a Lucrative Fatigue...addition of the "Stakeholder Opinions: Narcolepsy - Entry-point to a Lucrative Fatigue...report to their offering. Introduction Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder, which...
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals Supports Narcolepsy Network Initiative to Launch Its First-Ever National Narcolepsy Awareness Campaign.
PR Newswire; 3/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...that it is partnering with the Narcolepsy Network, a non-profit organization...increasing public awareness of narcolepsy and other sleep disorders. Through...from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the Narcolepsy Network is launching its first...
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Narcolepsy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Narcolepsy Definition Narcolepsy is a disorder of the nervous system marked by excessive daytime...hour). The American Psychiatric Association (APA) classifies narcolepsy as a sleep disorder in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and...
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narcolepsy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
narcolepsy a sleep disorder characterized by excessive...sleep attacks" ). People with narcolepsy may abruptly fall asleep at almost any...000 people in the United States have narcolepsy; it occurs about equally in males and...
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Sleep Disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...until the early hours of the morning. Narcolepsy is a dyssomnia characterized by recurrent...feels sleepy again several hours later. Narcolepsy has three major symptoms in addition...paralysis. About 40% of patients with narcolepsy have or have had another mental disorder...
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Modafinil
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
...wakefulness and alertness in persons with narcolepsy , a condition that causes excessive...over amphetamines in the treatment of narcolepsy. It promotes wakefulness, but has...cataplexy, the leading symptoms of narcolepsy, by stimulating sleep-suppressing...
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Central Nervous System Stimulants
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
...to improve wakefulness in patients that have narcolepsy . CNS stimulants are also used to treat patients...stimulants are used to keep patients who suffer from narcolepsy from falling asleep. Narcolepsy is a disorder that causes people to fall asleep...
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