Albert Wagner 
A clinical trial’s encouraging results won U.S. Food and Drug Administration breakthrough therapy status for an LSD formulation to treat generalized anxiety disorder, Mind Medicine Inc. announced Thursday. The biopharmaceutical company is developing the drug. “A breakthrough designation is a recognition that a drug has demonstrated evidence of clinical efficacy in meeting an unmet … Read more
The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday and while the gowns and the guests will be beautiful, we’ll be watching to get in our feelings with moving acceptance speeches. Honestly, the crazier or more emotional, the better. Let’s look back at some of the more unforgettable Oscars speeches from ceremonies in recent decades. … Read more
Residents in Latchford Township, approximately 130 kilometers north of North Bay, Ont., along Highway 11, are being asked to shelter in a safe place Thursday evening as Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conduct an investigation involving a suspect in the area that is believed to be “armed and dangerous.” “A shelter-in-place has been issued in Latchford … Read more
SYDNEY – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major coral bleaching event, with the results consistent with patterns of heat stress that have built up over summer at the biologically diverse site, a government agency said on Friday. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), the agency tasked with … Read more
HIROSHIMA, Japan – Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her unconscious and leveled swathes of the Japanese city. Now 86, she is eager to be among the first to … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised artillery firing drills aimed at boosting combat readiness, state media reported Friday, days after his country vowed to take corresponding military steps against the ongoing South Korean-U.S military trainin g that it regards as an invasion rehearsal. Thursday’s drills involved frontline artillery units, whose weapons place … Read more
Michael Gove failed to declare hospitality worth more than £1,700 at three Queens Park Rangers matches over the course of two years, not just the one occasion when he attended with a Conservative donor, it has emerged. The housing secretary was placed under investigation by the House of Commons standards watchdog last week, after the … Read more
Oprah Winfrey may have stepped away from Weight Watchers, but she’s not staying out of the conversation about weight. The mogul will host “a sit-down conversation around the radical impact of prescription weight loss medications” in “An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,” scheduled to air on ABC on March … Read more
The US government will stop accepting orders for free at-home Covid-19 tests on Friday, 8 March. Each household can still place an order until Friday for rapid coronavirus tests via the US Postal Service (USPS), according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a division of the US Department of Health and Human … Read more
Drinking two litres or more per week of artificially sweetened beverages — the equivalent of a medium-sized fast-food diet soda a day — raised the risk of an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation by 20 per cent when compared to people who drank none, a new study found. Known as A-fib, atrial fibrillation … Read more
