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The American Psychological Association, which establishes the standards for professional training in mental health, has voted to suspend its requirement according to which the post -laurea programs show a commitment for diversity in recruitment and hiring.The decision comes as accreditation organisms during higher education to respond to the executive order signed by President Trump who attacks the policies of diversity, equity and inclusion. It makes a push to expand the profession of psychology, which is disproportionately white and female, in a moment of growing anguish among young Americans.APA is the main accreditation body for professional training in psychology and the only one recognized by the United States Public Education Department. It provides accreditation to about 1,300 trai...

The pope's doctors did not think he would make it."It's terrible", Pope Francis went through a breathing crisis last month. The Pope, his hand bruises with needle stings and his saturation of oxygen that immerse themselves to a dangerously low 78 during his long hospitalization, recognized with a bankruptcy voice that could die. He held the doctor's hand.Francis had excluded intubation, which would have meant being unconscious, the leader of the medical team, said dr. Sergio Alfieri, in an interview. So his doctors decided to treat pneumonia in both lungs with a burst of drugs last speech that risked damaging his organs.The closest helpers of the Pope had tears in their eyes while the doctors asked the Pope's personal nurse, authorized to make life or death decisions, for the permission to...

The animated films, like those of the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, are not made quickly. The intricate hands of the hands and the attention paid to every single detail can make a process slow and potentially years.Or, you could simply ask Chatgpt to transform any old photo into a facsimile of the work of Mr. Miyazaki in a few seconds.Many people did that this week after Openi released an update to Chatgpt Tuesday who has improved his technology as generation of images. Now, a user who asks the platform to make an image in the style of Studio Ghibli could be shown an image that would not seem to be out of place in the films "My Neighbor Totoro" or "Spiritted Away".On social media, users quickly started publishing Ghibli -style images. They sold from selfies and family photos to ...

A submarine that carried Russian tourists sank on Thursday off the coast of the Egyptian Red Sea, leaving at least six dead people and bailouts who climb to bring people out of the water, said local officials.The ship transported 45 people to a tour of the coral reef off the coast near Hurghada, a popular city of resorts almost 300 miles south -East of Cairo. The rescue workers had pulled 39 people from the waters, all foreign tourists, Amr Hanafi, governor of the province of the Egyptian Red Sea. All passengers have been accounted for, he added.The Russian embassy in Egypt declared four Russian tourists in a statement on social media.The ship was less than a mile from the shore when he sank at 10 in the morning, said the embassy. The submarine was owned by the Sindbad Resort in Hurghada, ...

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 ...