September 2023

Researchers seeking to understand how sleep deprivation impairs the brain have identified a protective protein whose level declines with sleep deprivation, leading to neuronal death. The research is published in the Journal of Proteome Research. Studies indicate that lack of sleep leads to neurological damage in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in…

Audio Transcript You might remember, a couple of weeks back, we looked at ten reasons why we need the doctrine of unconditional election (that was in APJ 1969). One of those reasons was found in 1 Corinthians 1:27. God’s design for unconditional election is that God gets praised, and we get humbled. The doctrines of…

Royal Philips and certain US subsidiaries, including Philips Respironics, have reached an agreement to resolve all economic loss claims in the US Multidistrict Litigation related to Philips Respironics’ voluntary recall of certain sleep and respiratory care devices.  The class action lawsuit alleged economic loss claims with respect to certain CPAPs, BiPAPs, and ventilators with PE-PUR…

By Colleen DeGuzman Samuel Hanke is a pediatric cardiologist in Cincinnati, but when you ask him for his title, he follows it by saying: “Most importantly, I’m Charlie’s dad.” Hanke remembers the night 13 years ago when Charlie, then 3 weeks old, was fussier than usual, so he picked him up to soothe him back…

Apnimed will present new research on drug candidates AD109 and AD113, targeting obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), at the European Respiratory Society’s (ERS) International Congress 2023. For the first poster, the clinical-stage pharmaceutical company will present a new post-hoc analysis of data from the MARIPOSA phase 2b trial, a one-month efficacy, safety, and dose-finding study for…

Despite there being little evidence that taking melatonin is effective in treating insomnia in healthy children, a new survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) reveals that a significant number of parents have given the supplement to their school-aged children to help them sleep at night.  According to the survey, almost half (46%)…

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is inviting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through 11 funding opportunities, the first of which offers opportunities for sleep health.  The initial topical funding announcement focuses on two of the 12 topic themes approved by PCORI’s board of governors to guide the organization’s funding for several funding…