As you grow older, you increasingly find yourself at milestones that feel a bit surreal. For instance, this July, John Piper and I will mark three full and wonderful decades of ministry partnership that, by God’s grace, resulted in the birth of the mission we call Desiring God. Why does the milestone feel surreal? Well,…
ProSomnus Inc, a developer of medical devices for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), announced the results of a retrospective study demonstrating the efficacy of precision oral appliance therapy (OAT) compared to traditional OAT for the treatment of OSA. The study indicates that precision oral appliances by ProSomnus appear to be more efficacious than…
By Alexandra Frost After making it through an initial primary care physician visit, a sleep study, and a referral to a dental sleep medicine practitioner, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients prescribed oral appliance therapy still have a learning curve ahead—figuring out how to use, wear, and adjust their new device. This can seem daunting to…
Date and Time May 2, 202310:00–11:30 a.m. ET Overview People may vary widely across many dimensions despite having the same diagnosis, which can make effective treatment a challenge. Stratified medicine aims to identify groups of people within a diverse disease population who share unique characteristics (such as underlying mechanisms, risk factors, disease trajectories, or treatment responses)…
Audio Transcript God commands us to love him. He commands us to delight in him. He commands our cheerfulness. We see this all over our Bibles, in a cluster of texts we’ve talked about many times over the years: Deuteronomy 28:47; Psalm 32:11; 37:4; 100:2; Romans 12:8; 2 Corinthians 9:7; Philippians 3:1; 4:4; 1 Thessalonians…
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. If you’re all caught up on Hulu’s new hit, Unprisoned, then…
Axsome Therapeutics is announcing new data from the SHARP study, a trial of Sunosi (solriamfetol) in 59 patients with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) associated with obstructive sleep apnea and impaired cognitive function, from which positive topline results were announced in October 2022. The new data from the SHARP (Solriamfetol’s Effect on Cognitive Health in Apnea…
Phoenix Children’s is unveiling its new and expanded neurodiagnostic laboratory designed to improve comfort and care for children undergoing sleep studies, electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) testing, and nerve conduction studies. At Phoenix Children’s Hospital – Thomas Campus, the renovated neurodiagnostic sleep and EEG laboratory, which opens April 27, boasts 6,900 square feet, including eight…
As the quest to capture brain waves beyond the sleep lab continues, EEG electrodes will likely soon capture signals from surprising locations (minus today’s globs of gel). By Sree Roy The sleep techs I’ve spoken to all say the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal—out of the multitude of physiological recordings gathered during in-lab polysomnography—is the most difficult…
Scientists have discovered that while elephant seals may spend 10 hours a day sleeping on the beach during the breeding season, they average just two hours of sleep per day when they are at sea on months-long foraging trips. The new findings, published in Science, show that seals sleep about 10 minutes at a time…