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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

‘I Should Be More Careful With Twitter’: Marianne Williamson on Those Mental Health Comments

A hack job, i a hack job, is a hack job. It’s clear that drug companies promote over-prescription of their products and that some over-prescribe as a result. Drugs would cost less, if drug companies were not spending millions upon millions pushing them in medical offices and on screen in ads using paid actors to pretend they are benefiting from the drug being advertised on tv or online. Ms. Williamson, a spiritual adviser and long shot presidential candidate, stood by her claim that antidepressants are overprescribed, which experts say stigmatizes mental illness.

‘What keeps me going? My patients,’ says France’s oldest doctor at 98

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After 70 years, Dr Christian Chenay still wants to help people in the ‘forgotten’ suburbs of Paris

On a quiet street in a low-income Paris suburb, the doctor’s waiting room was so full that patients spilled out on to the pavement. Some from distant housing estates had travelled here as early as 4am to be sure of a place in line.

“This doctor is really loved because he takes time to listen to you, he calms you down,” said Yamina Derni, 63, who had been treated for benign tumours. “You don’t even notice his age.”

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Boris Johnson plans to frighten Europe then charm it. Here’s why he’ll fail | Jonathan Powell

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I spent 10 years negotiating with EU leaders. They don’t trust him, and simply won’t be fooled by his bluster

• Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair

The new prime minister insists blind ambition is enough. Like Peter Pan, if we do believe, we do, we do, then it will come true. We can have a new exit deal with the European Union within 99 days without the “undemocratic” Irish backstop because he wills it so. This Tinkerbell delusion is about to be tested on the wheel of harsh reality when Boris Johnson goes to meet his European colleagues. But even his first step has backfired. When he, unwisely, upped the ante by making refusal of the Irish border backstop a precondition for talks, the EU negotiator Michel Barnier immediately rejected the move. Now Johnson will have to back down even to get a meeting.

The prime minister’s strategy, however, remains clear: he will combine public threats and private charm. First, he will frighten Europe by giving every impression of going hell for leather for a no-deal Brexit. He has certainly appointed the right team to frighten them – Dominic Raab, Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings. Like us, EU leaders have seen the movie. And then he hopes the leaders will melt in the face of his personal charm when he comes to visit them.

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A US-born teen was in border custody for 23 days. Now he’s suing the government

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Francisco Galicia and his mother are speaking out on the inhumane conditions they say he endured while detained

A mother and her American-born teenage son are suing two US government agencies and speaking out over the inhumane conditions they said he endured while taken into border custody for more than three weeks.

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The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act?

because no trading partners with China are willing to act and Russia as well as USA don’t really care!

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A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is building

On Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia’s federal Parliament House for the first time and spent almost 12 hours meeting politicians – meetings he has spent almost two years hoping for – in which he pleaded for their help to bring his wife and nearly two-year-old son home.

Last week Abdusalam’s story was broadcast on Four Corners, detailing how his wife and son are trapped in China because they are Uighurs – ethnic minority Muslims.

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‘Unprecedented’: more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season

Huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska are producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space

The Arctic is suffering its worst wildfire season on record, with huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space.

The Arctic region has recorded its hottest June ever. Since the start of that month, more than 100 wildfires have burned in the Arctic circle. In Russia, 11 of 49 regions are experiencing wildfires.

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Inoreader – mBio: On the Emergence of Candida auris: Climate Change, Azoles, Swamps, and Birds

the rise of  C. auris is of particular concern because: C. auris infections have a high fatality rate The strain appears to be resistant to multiple classes of anti-fungals   This strain is unusually persistent on fomites in healthcare environments. And it can be difficult for labs to differentiate it from other Candida strains

Source: Inoreader – mBio: On the Emergence of Candida auris: Climate Change, Azoles, Swamps, and Birds