Right now, thousands of harmful chemicals in our food are going unchecked and the food industry is regulating itself. That’s why I recently co-sponsored the Food Chemical Reassessment Act, which would create an 'Office of Food Safety Reassessment' within the @US_FDA & reestablish…
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 18, 2023
Category: The Body Electric
Not so fast
It’s not available yet.
Gonorrhea, the second most common STI in the U.S., has developed resistance to all antibiotics used to treat it, except for one last recommended therapy. https://t.co/M3N9Wce8PC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 5, 2023
ODs don’t discriminate
There have been nine fentanyl overdoses (all nonfatal) in a little more than a month among students of a single high school in Loudoun County VA, one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Four were on school grounds.https://t.co/q7aMdUBhuj
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 3, 2023
Bad trip
Ketamine Therapy Providers Say They’re Running Out of the Drug https://t.co/YhuvSysdLd
— VICE (@VICE) October 30, 2023
Uh oh
So this happened:
In new research, hundreds of people talked about long-lasting difficulties that occurred after they had taken psychedelic drugs.
“I felt like the person I was before had been entirely wiped from all sense memory," one participant said. https://t.co/DHNzMjdNtU
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2023
I understand if you don’t want to click on this
But damn, those climate change scientists were SO RIGHT about this stuff.
Makes sense
🚨🚨"Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults." 🚨🚨(1/2) pic.twitter.com/6C2bRVHxzk
— Athan Koutsiouroumbas (@Athan_K) October 15, 2023
Paul Simon has complete hearing loss in one ear
And it’s of course affecting his music.
„The 81-year-old singer-songwriter’s hearing loss came on top of a difficult bout with COVID-19 that, the Times wrote, ‚left him physically frail.‘“ https://t.co/Glb1pLwVqi
— Endemie 💙 Rebellen (@EndemieRebellen) September 18, 2023
Shrooms
A single dose of psilocybin — the chemical found in magic mushrooms — reduced the symptoms of major depression in patients, according to a new study https://t.co/yix3MxmpKk
— Bloomberg (@business) September 1, 2023
Some good news
Australian ant honey inhibits tough pathogens, new research shows https://t.co/T76h5ug4fN #AMR #microbiology
— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) July 26, 2023