ABSTRACT: In the early 1980s, missionary and researcher David Barrett published the World Christian Encyclopedia, a massive survey of global Christianity and missions. Since then, the work of Barrett and others has shaped the church’s approach to missions in profound ways, not least by focusing attention on the world’s remaining unreached peoples. Now, new generations…
Congratulations, you’ve been accepted to the inaugural class of Therapy for Black Girls University (TBG U). Whether you’re packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, enrolling in a community college, or grabbing your stoles for graduation, embarking on the next chapter of your life is often exciting, but also a…
Harmony Biosciences Holdings Inc, maker of WAKIX (pitolisant) for adults with narcolepsy, has appointed Jeffrey M. Dayno, MD, president and CEO. He will also join the board of directors. The new CEO joined Harmony as chief medical officer and executive vice president when the company was founded in 2017 and has been serving as interim…
Empatica, a digital health and AI company developing medical-grade wearables for health monitoring and diagnostics, announced the launch of Empatica Actigraphy, which offers a new set of digital biomarkers for monitoring sleep and physical activity. Empatica Actigraphy comes as an addition to the company’s US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared Empatica Health Monitoring Platform and…
By Alyx Arnett Sleep specialist William H. Noah, MD, has been sharing some intriguing case study results on CPAP mask settings in his presentations at sleep conferences across the country. The medical director of Sleep Centers of Middle Tennessee PLLC has been using the “full-face” CPAP mask setting for sleep apnea patients who are actually…
Philips Respironics announced its first-quarter results, in which it provides an update on field action for specific sleep therapy and ventilator devices involved in the company’s ongoing recall. According to Philips, over 95% of the new replacement devices and repair kits required for the remediation of the registered devices have been produced. The majority of…
Audio Transcript We’re returning to the theme of gender confusion. We’ve received a load of emails on the topic, and we’re slowly working through them. You might remember at the end of last year we fielded a question from a nurse who worked in “gender reassignment” surgery pre-op and post-op. She doesn’t make the decisions;…
What is the good that makes the gospel good news? If the present, and especially the future, that the Christian gospel offers is undesirable, unimpressive, boring, bland, and unenjoyable, then how good is the good news? Is it only good in contrast with the active misery and punishments of hell? Or, does the good news…
The first step is to survive the coordinated attacks from the children. An ex-nihilo stain suddenly appears on my daughter’s dress. An episode from my son responding to his sister’s “help.” A well-placed plastic Lego planted strategically at the bottom of the steps. And of course, a soiled-through diaper just as we head for the…
We must remember throughout our lives that in God’s sight there are no little people and no little places. (The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way & No Little People, 90) So counseled Francis Schaeffer, twentieth-century American pastor and theologian. Perhaps no one needs the reminder more than moms, whose lives center, most literally, on…