Others are utilizing AI to investigate “journey studies” to determine what precisely psychedelic medication do to our brains, I reported in March. 

There’s plenty of anecdotal information to attract from. Loads of individuals are sharing tales of their very own experiences with psychedelics on-line, as Taylor Majewski reported earlier this yr.

From across the net:

Ten thousand individuals died from covid-19 final week. However the World Well being Group hopes that in some unspecified time in the future subsequent yr, it may possibly say the virus not represents a world well being emergency. (WHO) 

Covid instances are surging in China as restrictions are lifted, and authorities are urging individuals to not panic-buy fever medicine, painkillers—and canned peaches. (CNN)

Telehealth web sites are leaking customers’ delicate well being info to tech corporations. An investigation has discovered that individuals’s private, figuring out information, together with info on their psychological well being, is being shared with Fb. (STAT)

A customized mRNA most cancers vaccine has carried out properly in a part 2 medical trial, in keeping with an announcement by pharma corporations Moderna and Merck. When used alongside an present drug, the mRNA vaccine diminished the chance of most cancers recurrence or loss of life by 44% over use of the present drug alone. (Moderna)

Volunteers with melancholy are having 14 electrodes implanted into their brains to raised perceive and deal with their signs. Neuroscientists have used the information collected to this point to create a “temper decoder.” “Despair is sort of a fixed weight in your soul,” one volunteer who had his mind stimulated informed me. “After they touched that good little spot, that weight lifted.” (MIT Expertise Evaluation)