Psychedelic therapy with ketamine aims to ease PTSD for Ukrainian soldiers coming back scarred from front-line fighting

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A Ukrainian soldier prepares 155mm artillery rounds in a trench.
A Ukrainian soldier prepares 155mm artillery rounds in a trench.

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Ukraine's soldiers don't have time to grieve and can't risk falling apart, psychiatrist says after visiting front lines

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Ukrainian soldiers with rifles conducting combat drills.
Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk Oblast training for combat. The war has gone on for two and a half years and has taken a mental toll on troops.

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An SAP employee reported a workplace sexual assault. Now she's breaking her NDA.

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Ashley Kostial appears next to her reflection
In 2019, Ashley Kostial reported a sexual assault by a colleague at SAP. Then she signed an NDA.

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How a Vietnam vet saved his second marriage and overcame years of PTSD with help from MDMA therapy

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Compass Pathways is running a massive clinical trial that will likely help it turn a psychedelic substance into an approved medicine.
MDMA, like psilocybin mushrooms, is being investigated as a potentially therapeutic drug.

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Starting today, your local Walmart will look slightly different inside during the mornings

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Walmart TV's displaying a message about the store's sensory-friendly shopping hours
During the sensory-friendly shopping hours, Walmart's TVs are set to silent and display a message about the store creating a "calmer shopping environment.”

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On Ukraine's frontlines, soldiers show steely determination. But they also experience burnout, depression, divorce, 'and a lot of PTSD'

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A Ukrainian soldie poses for a portrait, in an undisclosed location near the town of Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhzhia region, on October 1, 2023.

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A massive Iranian missile attack on a US base offered a glimpse of the long-lasting injuries US troops will face in a war with Russia or China

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Aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq
Al Asad Airbase in Iraq's western Anbar desert.

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An Arizona GOP official relentlessly threatened by election deniers after the 2020 presidential race says he has PTSD

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Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates.

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A professor was murdered after a Facebook post branded him a traitor. Was Facebook complicit in his death?

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Slain professor Meareg Amare is shown in a FB blue cross hairs. The facebook sits nearby and scenes from the Bahir Dar area are shown.

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