Insomnia negatively affects quality of life and leads to substantial costs for society, but despite its high prevalence and burden, access to the recommended treatment—cognitive behavioral therapy—is extremely limited. The HABIT trial, published in The Lancet, involved 642 adults with insomnia recruited from 35 GP surgeries across England. The participants were split into two groups…
The hearts of 100 patients with sleep apnea are being monitored in a new trial to help researchers understand why they are more likely to die from heart disease. The British Heart Foundation awarded the University of Warwick and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust nearly £265,000 to carry out the research over…
Over three hundred years ago, Blaise Pascal observed, “All of the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber” (Pensées, 39). Pascal attributes this inability to our love of endless amusement, which distracts us from our doubts, worries, and discontent. And so, for most people, “The…
Part 15 Episode 90 When it comes to our salvation, what is the significance of the titles “Son of God” and “Son of Man”? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 1:43–51 and explains what’s in those two great names. Source
Audio Transcript If you live in the prosperous West, you are blessed like very few people ever have been in the history of the world. A glut of digital technologies abound, like the chain of technology we are using right now to communicate with one another. More importantly, things like infant- and child-mortality rates are…