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FDA reviews MDMA therapy for PTSD, citing health risks and study flaws

FDA reviews MDMA therapy for PTSD, citing health risks and study flaws

Associated media - Related media Research such as the current MDMA therapy studies has stalled support from various groups and lawmakers in both parties for the treatment of PTSD, a condition that affects millions of Americans, especially military veterans who are at enormous risk of suicide. No new therapies have been approved for PTSD in more than 20 years. “What’s happening is really a paradigm shift for psychiatry,” said David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelia and Neurotherapy at UC Davis. “MDMA is an important step for the industry because there is a real lack of effective treatments, and…
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Icelandic volcano erupts, spewing lava 150 feet into the air

Icelandic volcano erupts, spewing lava 150 feet into the air

Connected media - Linked media Helga Arnadottir, a spokeswoman, said this is the fifth evacuation order since the volcano came back to life last year. The evacuation went “as smoothly as previous ones,” Ms. Arnadottir added. It took hotel guests about a half hour to evacuate her, she said. Another 300 people had to relocate from Grindavik, a fishing town that has been largely abandoned since January after lava and earthquakes from previous eruptions destroyed parts of it. The government has offered to buy all the residential houses in Grindavik to allow the residents to move elsewhere. Almost all property…
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Trump can sue niece for disclosure of financial records, court rules

Trump can sue niece for disclosure of financial records, court rules

Associated media - Connected media In the charges against his niece, Trump argued that she broke the terms of a confidentiality agreement that was part of a settlement tied to the will of Fred C. Trump, the former president’s father, who died in 1999. Mrs. Trump, who revealed her role as a source for the Times in a 2020 memoir, argues that the First Amendment protected her actions. In a three-page opinion Thursday, the state appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that there was “substantial legal basis” for Trump’s breach of contract claim. The opinion also notes several questions…
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Ascension hospitals are victims of cyber attacks, causing delays in patient care

Ascension hospitals are victims of cyber attacks, causing delays in patient care

Related media - Connected media While some previous cyberattacks have targeted a single hospital or smaller medical networks, the collapse of Change, which manages a third of all U.S. medical records, underlined the dangers of consolidation when one entity becomes so essential to the system national healthcare. Ascension systems remain down indefinitely, but doctors and nurses are working to find ways to gain access to some information about patients’ medical history by examining medical records kept by other providers. Ascension is also telling doctors and nurses that they will soon be able to see existing digital records. “It’s a huge…
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Israel declares “tactical control” over Gaza’s strategic corridor bordering Egypt

Israel declares “tactical control” over Gaza’s strategic corridor bordering Egypt

Related media - Related media The Israeli military said Wednesday evening it had taken “tactical control” over the Philadelphia Corridor – a sensitive strip of Gaza along the border with Egypt – in a move that could further strain Israel’s already strained ties with Cairo. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said the area was “Hamas’s oxygen pipe” and had been used by the Palestinian armed group to “regularly smuggle ammunition into Gaza territory.” He said Hamas had also built tunnels near the Egyptian border, calculating that Israel would not dare strike so close to Egyptian territory. Israeli…
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Spain approves amnesty law on 2017 Catalan independence referendum

Spain approves amnesty law on 2017 Catalan independence referendum

Related media - Related media Madrid’s regional president, Isabel Ayuso, said in a radio interview Thursday that her government will take steps to hinder the implementation of the new law and will appeal as it is unconstitutional. Pablo Simón, a political scientist at the Carlos III University of Madrid, said judges could also file legal challenges if they found the granting of the general legal amnesty discriminatory. “Each judge has different criteria,” Simón explained, adding that he could also resort to the intervention of the European Court of Justice “if he considers that granting general amnesty is discriminatory,” in which…
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Senators see possible conflicts of interest in health care pricing tools

Senators see possible conflicts of interest in health care pricing tools

Related media - Related media In a statement, MultiPlan said it is working with Senate committees “to answer their questions and explain the costs and complexity patients may face” when choosing expensive care outside their networks. “We are committed to helping make healthcare transparent, fair and affordable for all,” the statement reads. The commissions’ investigation reflects growing scrutiny of the New York-based company, which has remained largely out of the spotlight even as it has gained a dominant position in a lucrative health care sector. Another senator, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, this month asked federal antitrust regulators to investigate whether…
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How Tim Flannery, the Giants coach, went back to writing songs

How Tim Flannery, the Giants coach, went back to writing songs

Connected media - Linked media “Like having to choose between air and water,” he said. “I have to have both.” Although Flannery grew up primarily in Anaheim, California, his family came from the hills of Kentucky. His uncle, Hal Smith, was a catcher who hit a three-run homer for Pittsburgh in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. If the Pirates’ bullpen had been leading 9-7, Smith would have been a hero . Instead, the Yankees tied the game and Pittsburgh’s Bill Mazeroski won the game and earned immortality. Smith, who played for 10 seasons, regularly…
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G7 finance ministers plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine

G7 finance ministers plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine

Linked media - Related media “It would be nice to block this mechanism, so that, whatever the outcome of the American elections, you have $50 billion to play with,” said Charles Lichfield, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Although Russia dominated the talks, fears over the threat of China’s industrial overcapacity loomed large. Policymakers fear that a wave of heavily subsidized Chinese green energy technology products will cripple clean energy sectors in the United States and Europe, leading to job losses and dependence on China for solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and other products. President Biden last week raised…
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