The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Last week we shared part 1 of a conversation about exploring…
The English Puritans and their Scottish counterparts, the Covenanters, experienced intense suffering. Along with their contemporaries, they faced the normal hardships of the seventeenth-century world: plagues, illnesses, and the deaths of infants, children, and women in childbirth. In addition to these, however, many of the Puritans endured deep and persistent persecution. The Stuart monarchs (1603–1685)…
Audio Transcript International missions is a huge theme in the life and ministry of John Piper. That word missions has appeared 250 times on this podcast alone. The church has global aspirations. Our ongoing prayer is the prayer of the psalmist: “Let the nations be glad and sing for joy” (Psalm 67:4). “Amen! Let the…
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals filed a Citizen Petition with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), urging them to de-schedule the dual orexin receptor antagonist (DORA) class of chronic insomnia medications based on data indicating a low potential for abuse. The petition outlines scientific and medical evidence demonstrating that the DORA class has a negligible abuse profile and potential…
Zevra Therapeutics Inc, formerly KemPharm, announced the submission of an Investigational New Drug application, seeking authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a phase 1 clinical trial of KP1077 in narcolepsy. Once the clinical investigation plan proposed in the Investigational New Drug application has been cleared to proceed by the FDA,…
Onera Health announced a strategic partnership with MedBridge Healthcare to deliver Onera’s self-applied, no-wire home polysomnography solution to people struggling with sleep disorders in the US. The new partnership aims to broaden access to Onera’s medical-grade polysomnography-as-a-service solution, improving the patient experience and lowering the operational burden currently faced in many sleep clinics across the…
Poor quality sleep may bolster a person’s genetic susceptibility to asthma, potentially doubling their risk of being diagnosed with the condition, suggests a large UK Biobank study published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research. A healthy sleep pattern seems to be linked to a lower risk of asthma, prompting the researchers to suggest that spotting and…