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Month: May 2021

‘In Treatment’ puts Uzo Aduba in the therapist’s chair, in a show tailor-made for the times

More than a decade after the original turned the lights off, “In Treatment” reopens as a series tailor-made for Covid protocols, with three-time Emmy winner Uzo Abuda sliding into the therapist’s chair once occupied by Gabriel Byrne. Featuring four rotating patients (the last again being “Physician, heal thyself”), it’s seemingly an ideal construct after a

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Oprah and Prince Harry talk mental health in ‘The Me You Can’t See,’ and ‘1971’ hits the right notes

Apple TV+ premieres a pair of docuseries this week, but the one with the splashier marquee, the Oprah Winfrey-Prince Harry-produced mental-health program “The Me You Can’t See,” runs a distant second behind “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” a hyperbolic title that’s still tons of fun to watch (and hear). “The Me You Can’t

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11-year-old honored for act of bravery

Click here for updates on this story     LONG BEACH, Washington (KPTV) — A young boy in southwest Washington is being recognized for an act of bravery. Back in April he saved a young boy from drowning and this week officers arrived to award that boy with several gifts to commemorate his life-saving actions. 11-year-old Aidan

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‘Sounding it out’ may not work for some children learning to read, brain study finds

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Researchers at Western University have discovered a biological deficit that impairs some kid’s ability to sound words out while learning to read. The multi-year research project, funded by the BrainsCAN program and cognitive neuroscientists at Western’s Brain and Mind institute, studied children’s brains

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Coronavirus vaccines may not promote an immune response in those with certain medications or underlying conditions

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Experts say COVID-19 vaccines may promote little or no response in people taking certain medications or those with underlying conditions, and are calling for more research to protect this group. Dr. Deepali Kumar, the head of the University Health Network’s Transplant Infectious Diseases

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Biden administration unable to continue $300 weekly pandemic unemployment benefits that GOP governors are slashing

The Labor Department has exhausted its options for continuing to pay an extra $300 a week in federal unemployment benefits to jobless people in the 22 GOP-led states that are ending them early, an administration official told CNN Thursday. Roughly 3.6 million out-of-work Americans will forgo a total of $21.7 billion in benefits as a

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