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Stephen Fry health: ‘I dodged a bullet’ TV actor on his potentially deadly diagnosis

Stephen Fry, 62, posted a video on his Twitter timeline last year revealing he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. In the video the TV star revealed that a routine-check up spotted an early warning sign of prostate cancer. Referring to his doctor,… Read More »

Can psychedelics treat anorexia, depression? U.S. scientists get millions to find out

Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression. “I was so depressed,” Petersen, 29, said… Read More »