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Month: September 2023

Experimental treatment pushed by ALS patients gets day before FDA, but agency unconvinced it works

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to consider approval of an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease, the culmination of a yearslong lobbying effort by patients with the fatal neurodegenerative disease. Those advocates still face one giant hurdle: FDA regulators say the treatment hasn’t

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Canada House Speaker apologizes after celebrating Ukrainian veteran who fought for Nazi unit in World War II

By Paula Newton and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons has apologized after celebrating a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit in World War II. In a speech Friday during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the Canadian parliament, Speaker Anthony Rota recognized and lauded 98-year-old

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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander among 34 killed in a missile strike in Crimea, Ukraine claims

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the missile that blasted the Crimean headquarters of Russia’s navy last week killed 34 officers, including the fleet commander, though it provided no evidence to support its claim. Ukraine’s Special Operation Forces said on the Telegram messaging app that its strike on the

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To TikTok or not to TikTok? One GOP candidate joins the app even as he calls it ‘digital fentanyl’

By MEG KINNARD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Republican presidential hopefuls have largely shunned TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app that many conservatives accuse of being a spy mechanism for China. But entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy recently became the first 2024 candidate to join the platform, which has over 150 million U.S. users. That’s even

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