Health

Psychiatric researchers in the US have found that severely depressed patients who take small doses of LSD are cured within 30 seconds of taking the drug.  Psychedelic substances such as LSD and psilocybin (the ingredient in magic mushrooms that causes hallucinations) are able to treat patients suffering from depression much more effectively than traditional anti-depressants, according to new research. Businessinsider.com reports: And as the new documentary “A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin” shows, the results we’ve seen so far are powerful.

A former Marine and his wife say the scene inside a Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, North Carolina, was so shocking that they took pictures and posted them to Facebook.

Now, as AP reports,  thousands of people are expressing outrage and the head of the medical center says an employee involved has been removed from patient care pending an internal review.

Hanna and Stephen McMenamin posted photos of two struggling veterans.

 

A Superior Court judge has ruled that authorities in California must publicly release papers outlining the carcinogenic dangers cellphone usage pose to the public. Up until now, State officials at the Environmental Health Investigations branch tried to keep the documents hidden from public view. However, on Friday, a judge ruled that the state must release all documents that detail the health risks associated with radiation emitted from cellular devices.

Several days after Goldman Sachs explained in theory why hopes for a quick "repeal and replace" of Obamacare are now extinguished, and even "repair and rename" is looking bad, overnight state governors meeting in Washington got the bad news in practice, when a presentation from Avalere Health and McKinsey warned that the policies proposed by Republican congressional leaders to repeal and replace Obama's signature healthcare law would lead millions of people to lose their health coverage, while states lose billions in Federal funding.