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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often criticized prescription stimulants, such as Aidirall, who are mainly used to treat the hyperactivity attention deficit disorder."We damaged the entire generation," he said last year during a podcast, referring to the number of children taking psychiatric drugs. "We poisoned them."In February, the "Make America Healthy Again" commission, led by Mr. Kennedy has announced its intention to evaluate the "threat" represented by drugs such as prescription stimulants.But are they a threat? And if so, to whom?Like many drugs, prescription stimulants have potential side effects and there are people who abuse them. However, these drugs are also considered some of the most effective and well -studied treatments that psychiatry has to offer, said dr. Jef...

Ukrainian thought that he had an agreement taking place to immediately suspend fights in the Black Sea. Russia said that economic sanctions should be revoked first. And the United States did not add the question of timing at all, simply by repeating the wide demand of President Trump that the murder stops.The conflicting statements published this week after the negotiations of ceased the medium -level fire in Saudi Arabia were the last sign of a chaotic process in which, they said analysts and experts, the Kremlin seems to play for the time and obtain the upper hand.The Trump administration has decided to guarantee a series of limited agreements of ceased the fire, claiming that the modest agreements will open the way to a wider truce and in the end a peace agreement to end the conflict. B...

Signal, a popular messaging app, this week arrived in the spotlight according to which several high officials of the Trump administration had used the tool to conduct war planning, inadvertently included a journalist in the message group.The app, which was started in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is popular between journalists, activists, privacy and politicians, anyone who wants to guarantee their communications with encryption.But the use of the app by the government officials led to a violation of the intelligence that took place outside the safe government channels that would normally be used for the planning of the classified and highly sensitive war. The accident raised questions about Signal's security and why the government officials were using it. (Federal officials ...

The Palestinians protested in Gaza Tuesday in a rare dissent show against Hamas, with some slogans critical singers on the grip of the armed group on the territory after more than a year of devastating war with Israel.The videos verified by the New York Times showed Gaza groups in the streets in the middle in the northern city of Beit Lahiya. Some transported more neutral signs that opposed the continuation of the war, while others sang slogans asking that Hamas came out.Gazas, at least publicly, tend to blame Israel for most of the death, destruction and hunger that war has brought. But at least some believe that Hamas is responsible, for starting the conflict by guiding on 7 October 2023, attack Israel, robbing 251 people in Gaza and continuing to fight rather than giving up his power in...

Tuesday the Senate confirmed Dr. Martin A. Makary as Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, installing two critics of the medical establishment for influential places in the midst of a Trump administration campaign to cut health costs.In a vote from 56 to 44, dr. Makary has been confirmed to guide an agency with a wide regulatory authority on the products including drugs and vaccines, putting it at the center of the safety pill safety pill and a wide range of inociations.The confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya-Da 53 to 47, with a party-party vote placed at the head of the main medical research agency in the world, which has recently been affected by cuts to staff and orders to pause or cancel vast research fundin...

The Trump administration seems doubled on Greenland.Vice -president JD Vance announced Tuesday to be directed on the island at the end of this week, winning a controversial visit that Greenland officials have clarified that they don't want to.At the beginning of this week, the Trump administration declared that Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security councilor, were traveling to Greenland to promote ties with the semi -autonomous territory of Denmark that President Trump wants for the United States.Officials of Denmark and Greenland immediately marked the journey as "aggressive" and part of the president of the president to obtain the island, as he recently said, "in one way or another".The White House released a statement on Tuesday afternoon by changing the ...

World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company started by Donald J. Trump and its children, announced Tuesday that she was planning to sell a digital currency called Stablecoin, deepening the president's financial ties with the crypt while its administration relaxes the application of the sector.Stablecoin would be known as USD1, the company wrote in a social media post, without revealing when it would be on sale. Stablecoin, a popular form of cryptocurrency, are designed to maintain a constant value of $ 1, making them useful for many types of crypt transactions."No game. No expedients. Just a real stability," he published World Liberty on his X account.Stablecoin is the fourth digital currency that Trump and his commercial partners have marketed to the public in the last year. World...

The United Nations announced on Monday that he would have reduced his presence to Gaza by withdrawing about a third of his international workers there, following repeated strikes of his structures by Israel.The Secretary General António Guterres declared in a declaration that the decision to reduce the imprint of the organization to Gaza was "difficult" at a time when humanitarian needs were conceded and with the resumption of Israeli attacks were killing hundreds of Palestinians, including women and children.The withdrawal announced on Monday would be the first time since the beginning of the Hamas Israeli war in 2023 that the United Nations have reduced his workforce to Gaza, but will keep a presence there."The United Nations are not leaving Gaza. The organization remains committed to co...

President Trump selected Susan Monarez, interim director of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, to guide the agency permanently.The president withdrew his first candidate, dr. Dave Weldon, a few hours before his confirmation hearing. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Monararez, a researcher of infectious diseases, will be the first non -physical to lead the agency in over 50 years."The Americans have lost confidence in the CDC due to political prejudices and disastrous bad management", wrote the president on Truth Social, adding that Dr. Monaarez would have worked with the secretary of health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to face the epidemic of chronic diseases and restore the responsibility of the agency."As an incredible mother and public employee dedicated, Dr. Monorarez in...

While the Israeli military have expanded his offensive in the Gaza Strip, taking control of several territory in some parts of the South and North and issuing new evacuation orders, many people who had recently returned to their homes have been displaced again.The Israeli journey in the southern city of Rafah has pushed thousands of families from the Tal -ult district, near the border with Egypt, to escape on foot on Sunday before the Israeli troops completely surround the area in the afternoon.For many, the new mass movement round has reported painful memories of the previous days of the war in Gaza. The residents of such al -ults and nearby areas have declared that they had to travel a specific path in the middle of a bombing, transporting very few objects, during the sacred month of Ram...