Around one-third of people with heart disease experience sleep problems, and now a new study shows that heart diseases affect the production of the sleep hormone melatonin in the pineal gland. The link between the two organs is a ganglion in the neck region, according to the paper published in Science by a team of…
Incannex Healthcare Ltd, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing medicinal cannabinoid pharmaceutical products and psychedelic medicine therapies, has submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IHL-42X for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The IND dossier compiled by the Incannex team includes comprehensive modules on the safety…
What is Look at the Book? You look at a Bible text on the screen. You listen to John Piper. You watch his pen “draw out” meaning. You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. And (we pray!) all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love.…
Have you seen the recent “colored book” decoration trend? The basic idea is to take books whose covers have the same basic palette and put them together, thereby arranging all your books by color. Some used bookstores are even offering bundles of all-blue, all-green, or all-yellow books that you can buy just for this purpose.…
Harmony Biosciences Holdings Inc has completed an end-of-phase 2 meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its clinical development plan evaluating pitolisant as a potential treatment for excessive daytime sleepiness in patients ages 6 and older with Prader-Willi syndrome. Harmony plans to initiate a phase 3 registrational study in the fourth quarter…
Sree Roy: Hello, and welcome. I’m Sree Roy with Sleep Review, and I’m thrilled to be here with sleep specialist Logan Schneider, MD, who is skilled in clinical research, medical education, epidemiology, sleep medicine, and neurology. He received post-doctoral training in sleep genetics and big data and has advised multiple startups in their sleep endeavors. …
On 6 July my colleague Sue Newham and I attended the second day of this Bevan Commission conference at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport. The Bevan Commission is Wales’ leading health and care think tank – aiming to “challenge, change and champion thinking and practice to ensure sustainable health and care that is fit…
Imagine that you receive a word from a trustworthy prophet. It begins hopefully enough: “You will live long and die in peace, and your name will be remembered for centuries.” But then comes a turn: “A few generations after you die, devastation will visit your family and your church. Your descendants will lie in ruins.”…
Date and Time August 2, 202312:30–2:00 p.m. ET OverviewThe prevalence of mental health disparities is higher among bisexual and other multi-gender attracted (e.g., pansexual, queer; collectively “bi+”) individuals compared to monosexual (e.g., heterosexual, lesbian, gay) individuals. In the United States, the prevalence of mood/anxiety disorders is higher among bi+ women compared to heterosexual and lesbian women.…
Audio Transcript Ask three people to explain what it means to be spiritual . . . and you’ll get four different answers. That’s a humorous way to state the problem. Definitions of spirituality are very squishy things. The term means something different to everyone. So, what is biblical spirituality? Can we settle on an objective…