People with heart failure and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can significantly reduce hospitalizations and emergency room visits as well as related costs by being adherent to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy, according to two studies supported by ResMed and presented at SLEEP 2023. One retrospective study showed people with OSA and systolic heart failure and…
Harmony Biosciences Holdings Inc presented safety and efficacy data from a phase 2 proof-of-concept study evaluating pitolisant for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness in people with Prader-Willi syndrome at SLEEP 2023. The positive signal supports further development to determine if pitolisant has the potential to address an unmet medical need for people with Prader-Willi…
Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc announced that Lumryz—an extended-release formulation of sodium oxybate indicated to be taken once at bedtime for the treatment of cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in adults with narcolepsy—is now commercially available. “We are proud to announce that Lumryz is commercially available through both our RYZUP patient support program and our specialty…
New data from the National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) Sleep Health Index show a significant increase in the percentage of US adults who sleep less than the NSF-recommended seven to nine hours per night, as more restrictions were lifted during the COVID-19 pandemic. NSF’s findings showed a 40% increase in the percentage of US adults who…
Audio Transcript How much should a pastor make? The pastor’s salary is a question we get often. The topic has actually factored into at least three episodes in the past that I can remember, back in APJ episodes 217, 472, and 912. But the pastor’s salary was only a subtheme in all three of those…
I sometimes feel that I am living just as long as I have something great to work for. My mother-in-law, Joni, lives with my wife and me. She’s in relatively good health for being 100 years old. She laughs. She cries. She jokes a bit. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren love to visit. They’re intrigued by…
People who have insomnia symptoms such as trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up too early, may be more likely to have a stroke, according to a study published in Neurology. In addition, researchers found the risk was much higher in people under 50 years old. The study does not prove that insomnia symptoms…
As a younger man, I expected that leadership would mean responsibility, burden, and difficult decision-making. I didn’t know, however, that leadership would also mean a good deal of failure. I don’t have in mind large-scale, shocking failures — the kind that disqualify a man from pastoral ministry, for example. No, I mainly have in mind…
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. We first meet Queen Charlotte in Season 1 of Shonda Rhimes’…
The kind of man you hate reveals what kind of man you are. “But I hate him,” Ahab declared of Micaiah, God’s prophet. Jehoshaphat, the righteous king of Judah, sat with Ahab, the wicked king of Israel, to deliberate one question: Should they go to war together against Syria? Peace had lasted three years with…