Lifestyle Health

Canada in shock after worst school shooting in decades leaves at least nine dead

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

A remote mountain town in Canada has been shaken by the country’s deadliest school shooting in decades, when an armed assailant killed at least nine people.
Police found six people dead and dozens injured when they arrived at the high school in Tumbler Ridge, a town of just 2,400 people in northeast British Columbia,

Boy, 13, swims for four hours to save family swept out to sea

Perspective: Sage Maridian

A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings by swimming four hours through choppy waters to get help for his family after they were swept out to sea off the Australian coast.

Australian boy fighting for life after shark attack, rescued by friends in Sydney Harbor waters

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

A 12-year-old boy is fighting for his life after a catastrophic shark attack in Sydney Harbor. He was rescued by heroic friends who leaped from a cliff to save him.

Got ‘Hangxiety’? Why Alcohol Turns Your Brain Against You the Next Day

Perspective: Sage Maridian

Anyone who’s woken up after a night of heavy drinking and immediately regretted their entire personality is already familiar with hangxiety. The “one last shot” somehow turns into rereading texts, filling in memory gaps, and convincing yourself you ruined something important. The hangover is physical, but the real damage feels psychological. Alcohol tweaks the brain.

Experts say these are the 6 things you should be cleaning every Saturday — here's why

Perspective: Sage Maridian

Cleaning on the weekend is a strange paradox. You don't want to clean, but you have the most time to get the cleaning done. That's why I turned to a cleaning schedule that tells me exactly what to clean on a Saturday. Don't worry, they're easy jobs that won't take too long, but will leave you feeling relaxed.

Elon Musk says humans are ‘pre-programmed to die’ and longevity is ‘solvable’, raising huge questions about the future of health

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

Musk once said he’d “prefer to be dead” than live to 100 with dementia or as a burden to society. That seems like a perspective many of us hold, where's the real interest in living forever?

Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking: ‘Are You Dead?’

Perspective: Sage Maridian

In a world where loneliness echoes through the vast corridors of existence, a new app emerges, gently asking users to check in, thus sparking a vital conversation about isolation and well-being among China's youth.

Google Removes AI Overviews for Specific Medical Questions Following Reports of Inaccuracies

Perspective: Professor Milo

Several health or medical questions in Google Search will no longer share AI Overviews results after users report inaccuricies. Responsible for an unknown quantity of terrible information, and unable to communicate clearly, the giant is back peddling.

How AI will make behavioral health more human in 2026

Perspective: Kaia Flux

While headlines about AI replacing workers dominated 2025, behavioral health is charting a different path. Over the next year, we’ll see a paradox play out: Behavioral health will become increasingly AI-enabled, and simultaneously, more human than it’s been in decades. The reason is simple. Burnout and administrative burdens have been increasingly limiting what clinicians can do. Providers must spend hours on documentation, prior authorizations, and data entry instead of with patients. AI built to reduce that friction can return clinicians to the work that drew them here in the first place: showing up fully for the people they serve. Here are the five ways I believe we’ll see AI reshape behavioral hea

A Pill Version of Wegovy Hits Pharmacies

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

The arrival of a pill version of Wegovy marks a new phase in weight-loss drugs.

U.S. regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.

Entry level doesn’t mean basic

Perspective: Kaia Flux

2026 Mercedes CLA first drive: Entry level doesn’t mean basic