By Lindsey Nolen Sleep is essential to healthy child development, yet one in five young children and preadolescents have symptoms of insomnia.1 Pediatric insomnia can result in difficulty falling asleep, bedtime resistance, and night wakings and has been linked to insomnia in adulthood, mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety, and alcohol use. Pediatric…
Audio Transcript Sibling rivalries. That’s our theme today. Welcome back to the podcast. We’ve talked about siblings on the podcast in a couple of contexts. We addressed the prodigal son and his older brother in APJ 1059. And we looked at how Jesus is our perfect elder brother in APJ 934. I love that episode…
Back in 2020 Jess Tanner worked for Brecon & District Mind as an Ecotherapist leading the Green Minds Ecotherapy Project. Jess now works for the Powys charity The Fathom Trust as an Ecotherapist and Community Gardener. We spoke to Jess to find out more about The Fathom Trust, and how coming together as a community…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Somnics clearance for its capability to change the negative pressure setting of its iNAP sleep therapy device. According to a release from Somnics, the feature will enhance the success of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) treatment and empower physicians to titrate the device using the user-friendly iNAP…
While decades of published research have shown that pulse oximeters can give biased readings for patients with dark skin, a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis is reporting that suggested race-based adjustments to hypoxemia thresholds are insufficient; instead, researchers report, the oximeter itself must be fixed. Doctors have suggested “race-corrected” pulse oximeter…