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Day: July 6, 2018

Amazonian Psychedelic May Ease Severe Depression, New Study Shows

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(Conversation) – “Leon” is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, where he describes the challenge of living with a mental illness that affects some 300 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Leon is among the roughly 30 percent of those patients with treatment-resistant depression. Available antidepressant drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors do not alleviate his depressed mood, fatigue, anxiety, low self-esteem and suicidal thoughts. A new study may offer hope for Leon and others like…

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The Trade War begins, how tariffs work, and what that means for you

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(TFC) – The opening shots of the largest trade war in history were fired this morning at midnight EST. President Trump’s tariffs went into effect. “China is forced to strike back to safeguard core national interests and the interests of its people,” said the Chinese commerce ministry. China is expected to return fire by adding tariffs to American-made products in the automotive, meat, and seafood industries. These are industries where his base voters work. Trump has promised to retaliate against any response from the Chinese with more tariffs imposed on…

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