Gem Specialty Health Inc, a digital specialty care clinic, has raised a seed financing round led by HealthTrend Capital to expand Gem Health, its virtual sleep apnea clinic, by offering insurance coverage through more local and national health plans. “I am excited to partner with GEM in its mission to improve the sleep care experience. The…
Jazz Pharmaceuticals presented a review of clinical data assessing the impact of oxybate on sleep quality, sleep architecture, and measures of disrupted nighttime sleep in narcolepsy as one of six abstracts at the 36th annual Psych Congress. Oxybate is the active ingredient in Xywav (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium oxybates) oral solution for narcolepsy and…
During my lifetime, I probably have read every major classic Reformed book on the Christian ministry. I am grateful for the wealth of resources that ministers and ministerial students have for their instruction and growth today. We are blessed to have William Perkins’s The Art of Prophesying (Preaching) and The Calling of the Ministry, Richard…
Audio Transcript Christ is our Sabbath rest. We celebrate this beautiful truth every Lord’s Day, every Sunday. But what about on a day like today, on Monday? Is Christ my Sabbath rest today, at work? That’s Pam’s question for you, Pastor John, a good one. “Pastor John, hello,” she writes. “Christ is our Sabbath rest.…
I know nothing greater in human language than the eighth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans. It is the towering chapter of the towering book of the towering apostle. The God of Romans 8, the Christ and cross of Romans 8, the salvation of Romans 8, the love of Romans 8, and the hope…
Jesus has a popular reputation with many as a gentle, lowly teacher and healer who calls the sick, the shamed, and the sinners to come to him and receive his grace and kindness. And for good reason: Jesus is the most fundamentally kind and gracious person you’ll ever encounter. But if you come to him…
Anyone who has led a Bible study for long has encountered one of those horribly awkward moments when some well-meaning person passionately points out something in a verse that simply isn’t there. Years ago, I was leading a memorable small group discussion of Romans 9. John Piper once described these 33 verses as “a tiger…
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) issued a new guideline emphasizing the benefit of consistent sleep schedules on health and performance, while also endorsing catch-up sleep on non-work days when needed. A multidisciplinary expert panel consisting of authorities in sleep and circadian science developed the consensus recommendation, which indicates that consistent sleep and wake times are…
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded Rest Technologies Inc a Small Business Innovation Research grant to demonstrate the ability to monitor sleep in pregnant women nightly to identify the onset of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Rest Technologies will monitor patients using the Rest Tracker platform, a medical-grade application using SleepImage’s US Food and…
A team of clinical psychologists at VCU Massey Cancer Center received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the US Department of Defense to help treat insomnia among military members, veterans, their beneficiaries, and the general public who have been diagnosed with brain cancer. Insomnia is common among people with brain cancer, from diagnosis throughout survivorship.…