June 5, 2023 • Research Highlight Nerve cells in the brain, known as neurons, share information with each other. This is particularly true for neurons in gray matter of the cortex, the largest part of the brain where each neuron connects with thousands of other neurons in support of complex brain functions. Electrical neuronal activity…
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in . . . conduct. (1 Timothy 4:12) My brother pastor, this tragic world has no idea how much you’re worth. But in the eyes of the risen Christ, you so matter. You carry weight with him, and you can carry…
Audio Transcript Welcome back to the podcast. This week we’re talking about pastoral ministry. Can single men pastor — or must pastors be married?? That’s today. And then, how much should pastors make? That’s up next. So, Pastor John, we know that many professing Christians around the world claim that church leaders must be single…
“When you couple these two core signals, HRV and breathing, that define all of us—the true differentiators between health and disease, life and death—they produce a stable signal that represents health and/or sickness during sleep,” says Bogi Palsson, CEO of SleepImage. “That’s one of the reasons the FDA has given SleepImage the clearance for a…
By Sree Roy Software as a Medical Device maker SleepImage has doubled the resources devoted to its chief medical officer (CMO) role, adding neurologist-sleep scientist Jeffrey Durmer, MD, PhD, as chief medical applications officer, and retaining CMO Solveig Magnusdottir, MD, MSc, MBA, in the more specific role of chief medical development officer. The addition reflects…
The curious man came at night, under the cloak of darkness. By and large, the masses may have been missing the significance of Jesus’s miracles, but Nicodemus, a Pharisee and “ruler of the Jews,” was catching on. “No one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him,” he recognized. He was…
The late R.C. Sproul was fond of inverting a particular biblical passage in order to bring home a theological truth. For instance, in seeking to press upon his hearers the horrors of God’s wrath, Sproul would turn to the Aaronic blessing: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon…
In July of 1741, a 37-year-old Jonathan Edwards grabbed a sermon already preached in Northampton and took it on the road to Enfield. There it was “attended with remarkable Impressions on many of the Hearers.”1 Edwards spoke of sinners in the hands of an angry God and grace to those in Christ in a message…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its Philips Respironics recall safety communication to provide updated information about medical device reports that the agency received from Jan 1 to March 31. The update indicates there have been over 6,000 medical device reports and 40 new deaths during that period. Manufacturers, such as Philips, are…
Tokyo-based Eisai Co Ltd will present eight poster presentations, including the latest data on its in-house discovered orexin receptor antagonist lemborexant (Dayvigo) at SLEEP 2023. Major poster presentations include new data about the effects of lemborexant on obstructive sleep apnea (poster numbers: #298, 299, and 300). “Eisai considers neurology, including insomnia, a therapeutic area of…