An LSD-like drug could treat depression in humans without sending patients on a Magical Mystery Tour, according to a new scientific study. As the use of hallucinogenic drugs for recreational and therapeutic purposes soared to new heights in the US, scientists discovered new variants that appeared to ease anxiety and depression in rodents without delivering … Read more
An interview with Elizabeth Banks in the New York Times tied to the release of her new film Call Jane turned for a time into an exploration of an older film Banks directed, Charlie’s Angels. Banks called it “a long conversation that I don’t know that I want to get into.” Pressed by interviewer David … Read more
Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman have been friends for years. They co-starred in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached and seemingly remained friendly. Funnily enough, during the same period of time, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher’s wife, made a movie with Justin Timberlake titled Friends With Benefits, which has a similar premise. While the coincidence is … Read more
Suzie* was a typical 22-year-old recent college grad from the Midwest who was admitted into my mental health clinic in Austin with a variety of increasingly common psychiatric disorders: depression, self-harm (cutting her arms) and a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis. BPD is a serious personality disorder that has 50 times the suicide rate of … Read more
Science and Technology Minister Daryl Vaz presents a plaque to S&T XXtrordineers honouree Dr Simone Badal at the launch of the recognition programme on July 14. With black men two-and-half times more likely to die from prostate cancer and Jamaican men having one of the highest incidences of the cancer in the world, trailblazing Jamaican … Read more
An anonymous reader shares a report: The global obesity epidemic is getting worse, especially among children, with rates of obesity rising over the past decade and shifting to earlier ages. In the US, roughly 40% of today’s high school students were overweight by the time they started high school. Globally, the incidence of obesity has … Read more