Authentic Chinese Cuisine RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 947 Franklin Blvd. 343-4480 Students Win!! And so does everyone who does business with U-lane-0 Credit Union! come enjoy the convenience of our newest Service Center! ♦ 1665 W. 18th Ave. (At 18th and Chambers) ♦ No Surcharge Drive-Thru ATM! ♦ No Surcharge Walk-Up ATM! ♦ Free Checking! ♦ Free Internet Banking! ♦ Evening and Weekend Hours! U-Lane-0 Credit Union “Where Everyone Wins” 687-2347 1-800-365-1111 www.ulaneocu.org NCUA Health news Snoring can cause problems A jew simple changes in nighttime habits can help snorers kick the habit and begin sleeping better By Sarah Skidmore Oregon Daily Emerald Snoring is an affliction that hurts both the snorers and the peo ple close to them. While snoring is a seemingly harmless and noisy nighttime habit, it can cause serious prob lems, said Jolene Siemsen, nurse practitioner at the University Stu dent Health Center. Snoring can interrupt sleep patterns to cause groggi ness and fatigue. Twenty million Americans snore nightly, according to the Co lumbia University Health Educa tion Program. Snoring is produced by vibrations of the soft palate in the mouth and is caused by multi ple conditions that interfere with a normal breathing pattern. Colds, allergies, really dry air, swelling of the nasal passages, in juries to the nose that cause a break in the nasal path or tonsil enlargements from infections are all possible causes for snoring, Siemsen said. Snoring is most common while sleeping on your back. Columbia University recom mends a number of options to help snorers with their situation: To discourage sleeping on your back, try sewing a tennis ball to your pajamas near the small of your back. To prevent muscle re laxation in the mouth and throat, do not drink alcohol, take sleeping pills, antihistamines or tranquiliz ers before bed. To prevent a dry throat, add humidity to your room. To align your airway, use extra pillows. To reduce a build up of mucus, do not eat dairy products before bedtime. You can also try taking a couple spoonfuls of honey daily for a few weeks. Ask a roommate or bedmate to turn you on your side when you begin to snore. Siemsen recommends a profes sional medical evaluation if a stu dent is not having restful sleep, if their snoring is getting progres sively worse or there are periods when they cease breathing during sleep. Sleep apnea is a condition which causes a person to cease breathing for short periods during sleep. This condition is most com mon in obese, middle-aged men with hypertension and is not a pri mary concern for students, Siem sen said. MRI scans may help predict strokes Daniel Q. Haney The Associated Press DALLAS — MRI scans are helping doctors predict whether plaque, the fatty gunk that clogs the arteries, is likely to break open and trigger a heart attack or stroke. Doctors have long known that heart attacks and strokes typically occur when a lump of plaque on an artery walls bursts. In a mis guided attempt at repair, the body forms a clot over the plaque that chokes off the blood supply com pletely. Researchers have been delving into what makes some plaque harmless while other bits are prone to breaking. Now, they are taking steps toward technology that will let them peek inside the plaque to reveal whether it is vulnerable to disaster. At Sunday’s opening of the an nual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association, doc tors described two new uses of magnetic resonance imaging scans that may at last allow them to distinguish benign plaque from the dangerous. “Many of us think that the most significant clinical advance in the next five to 10 years will be the noninvasive imaging of plaque,” commented Dr. Jan Breslow of Rockefeller University. The noninvasive technique in volves souping up an ordinary MRI machine to snap super-fast cross-sectional pictures of the beating heart. Ordinarily, doctors make im ages of the blood vessels using ul trasound or X-rays that tell them whether they are narrow. But this offers no clue to what the block ages are made of. The MRI pic tures reveal the composition of plaque, which is key to predicting whether it is likely to break. Affordable Technology ""1 m we build computers your way all systems standard with limlowsge OREGON’S LARGEST WHOLESALE COMPUTER MANUFACTURER IS NOW IN EUGENE visit r 1142 WILLEGILLESPIE RD SUITE 25 6S5.1 3D2 hours: Mon-Fri 9-6 / Sat & Sun 1 0-4 surf WWW We are an authorized Microsoft OEM © 1998 Affordable Technology. Inc. All trademarks properly of Iheir respeclive owners * OAC P-266 17' DIGITAL SVGA MONITOR INCLUDED • 32mb SDRAM •24x CD-ROM • 4.3Gb UltraDMA HardDisk • 4Mb S3 ViRGE64 3D Card • 56k kFlex FaxAfoice Modem • 16bit Yamaha Sound Card • 1 70w Multimedia Speakers • Windows98 w/CD/Manual fVa 5121 AGP Momeffxd 3 5‘ Flopcv Dm* 104 lev fevtwara Sena Maae P266 NOTEBOOK 12.1" TFT SVGA COLOR DISPLAY • 4Gb HardDisk • 32mb RAM • 2Mb 128bit PCI Video • 20x CD-ROM •1 .44 Floppy • 56k Flex Modem • 16bit Stereo Sound • PCMCIA Slot • NiMH Battery • Windows98 Preloaded SERVICE UPGRADES 17 DIGITAL SVGA MONITOR INCLUDED • 32mb RAM •36x CD-ROM • 4.3Gb UltraDMA HardDisk • 4Mb S3 ViRGE64 3D Card • 56k kFlex Fax/Voice Modem • 16bit Yamaha Sound Card • 170w Multimedia Speakers • Windows98 w/CD/Manual 4406X AGP Moffwooaa 1 t (coprCur* iOJ «ev ifttnoa *5 2 Mouse ALL. SYSTEMS INCLUDE TONS OF FREE, REAL software: Office Suite for Win 95, Quicken, Chessmaster 4000, Compton's 3-in- 1 Reference Set, Bodyworks 5.0, Mavis Beacon Typing, Complete U.S. & World Atlas Set, Kids' Zoo Explorer, and over 1,000 more! FREE INTERNET P~45fl intgl PentiumlltS^ | DIGITAL SVGA MONITOR INCLUDED |*64mb SDRAM •36x CD-ROM • 6.4Gb UltDMA HardDisk • 4Mb S3 ViRGE64 3D Card • 56k kFlex Fax/Vaice Modem • 16bit Yamaha Sound Card • 1 70w Multimedia Speakers • Windows98 w/CD/Manual (Vi 4408X AGPMo»»