Date and Time September 12, 20232:30–4:00 p.m. ET OverviewThe suicide rate among American farmers is serious and worsening but may not be well explained by either a lack of access to care or demographic characteristics. This webinar will begin with a brief fact book about suicide and American farming that emphasizes the diversity present in farming…
Once upon a time, you loved to write. Maybe as a child you spent hours in your room, scribbling imaginative stories. Or maybe you picked up poetry in high school. Or maybe during college you took refuge in a private journal, your prayers and outpoured hopes finding their home on paper. But then somewhere along…
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. How many of us can say that we have a friendship…
The Assistance Fund, an independent charitable patient assistance organization that helps patients and families facing high medical out-of-pocket costs, launched a new financial assistance program for people living with idiopathic hypersomnia. The program is designed to help eligible individuals pay for their out-of-pocket medical expenses related to idiopathic hypersomnia, such as copays, health insurance premiums,…
Before heading to work each day, most people have spent the night dreaming. Studies show that on any given morning, about 40% of the working population recalls their dreams. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that when dreams are first recalled, people often draw connections between their dreams and waking lives, and…
Getting enough sleep can help children combat the effects of stressful environments and increased levels of impulsivity, according to a study published in Sleep Health from the Youth Development Institute at the University of Georgia. “Stressful environments are shown to make adolescents seek immediate rewards rather than delayed rewards, but there are also adolescents who…
People in Asia report worse sleep than their counterparts in Europe and North America. Using objective measures of sleep rather than subjective reports, new research has shown that people in Asia go to sleep later, have shorter sleep, and have lower sleep quality than those in other parts of the world. Additionally, their sleep during…
As with any topic related to Christian living, discussing physical exercise in the life of a pastor runs the risk of twin dangers: legalism and antinomianism. Those two terms are tricky to understand and apply, but my point is hopefully simple: the antinomian pastor doesn’t think he is under much obligation to look after his…
Swiss clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company NLS Pharmaceutics Ltd issued a letter updating stakeholders on its progress in developing treatments for sleep disorders, which include Mazindol ER for narcolepsy, NLS-4 for idiopathic hypersomnia, and NLS-11 for Kleine-Levin Syndrome. On Aug 25, NLS submitted a fast-track designation application for Mazindol ER to the US Food and Drug Administration…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has denied a Petition for Reexamination concerning a patent covering the active ingredient in Harmony Bioscience’s narcolepsy drug Wakix (pitolisant). The petition was filed in July by Scorpion Capital, which made numerous claims, including that Harmony’s core patent was obtained via fraud and that the patentee misled…