July 19, 2023 • Research Highlight Hospital visits for mental health care increased among children and teens in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. Analyses of insurance claims data for more than 4.1 million children showed an especially notable increase in acute…
Not many of us are farmers. Not anymore. And relatively few of us have served as soldiers in combat. But perhaps some of us have tried our hands at competitive athletics — the kind you train for, and not just show up to play. You may not have been aware of it at the time,…
By Sree Roy In the increasingly verdant landscape of narcolepsy pharmacotherapy, no two drugs fill the same space. The variety of narcolepsy drugs available in the United States work through different mechanisms—GABA, histamine, and perhaps soon orexin, as well as other systems. The drugs treat narcolepsy symptoms—such as excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy—to differing degrees,…
Man is a creature who hardly knows himself. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Even as a Christian with a new heart, I continue to discover within myself new contradictions, fresh perplexities, strange paradoxes. Take, for example, the cohabitation of a desire for a sturdier…
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. 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, a genre that…
Incannex Healthcare Ltd, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing medicinal cannabinoid pharmaceutical products and psychedelic medicine therapies, has engaged Fortrea as the contract research organization to manage the Investigational New Drug opening phase 2/3 clinical trial investigating IHL-42X for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The phase 2/3 clinical trial will assess the safety and efficacy…
By April G. Reese Obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder strongly linked to cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, and increased mortality, is all too common: Almost one billion people globally have it, according to a 2019 study. The US has one of the highest rates of the disorder in the world, exceeded only by China.1 Underserved populations…
Sleep has a huge impact on health, well-being, and productivity, but how long and how well people sleep these days has not been accurately reported as previous research has mostly relied on self-reports or was confined within the data from the unnatural environments of the sleep laboratories, according to researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of…
By Madhura Lotlikar, McGill University Humans need less sleep than our closest evolutionary relatives. However, we often sleep less than we need. Needing less sleep is a consequence of our ancestors’ choices to remain awake longer — a behaviour that led to evolutionary benefits. Sleeping less than we need is the result of our modern-day…
In March 1557, a group of Protestant French tradesmen landed on an island off the coast of Brazil, coming to be a part of a new French colony that needed more people, especially skilled workers. Along with this company were two Protestant ministers, Pierre Richier and Guillaume Chartier, who had been invited to teach the…