By Dr Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Children with behavioral and mental health conditions often fall victim to polypharmacy, the use of multiple medications at one time In Renae Smith’s case, which was profiled by The New York Times, she was prescribed 10 psychotropic medications while she was still in high school One systematic review found......
A “super-intelligent” artificial intelligence (AI) very likely would become so capable that humans would no longer be able to direct or contain its behavior, several researchers have warned in a study published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence. Odds are that such an AI eventually will be created, the group said. To control it, scientists......
CHINA’S ECONOMIC DATA PAINTS MIXED PICTURE On 16 September, China’s National Bureau of Statistics released data showing that home prices continue to fall and consumer spending remains relatively feeble. In contrast, new jobs were added and infrastructure investment, a tried and true means for government agencies to goose the economy, increased. Across 70 major cities,...
Economic output in Britain stagnated in the second quarter, compared to a 0.3-percent expansion in the first three months of this year. On 1 July, the U.K. economy was the same size as it was on 1 January, the Financial Times reported. The economy shrank by 0.6 percent in June, which economists attributed to a...
