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Jun

2024

New professional women’s hockey league will launch in 6 cities

More news - News 24 hours For the first season, each team will play 24 regular season games starting in January 2024. The league says subsequent seasons will begin in November and include 32 games. An expansion is also possible in the future, he said. In its final season, the PHF had teams in Boston; buffalo; Simsbury, Conn.; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Richfield, MN; Montreal; and Toronto. With the start of the new championship, Buffalo and Connecticut lose their teams, while Ottawa gains one. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said his league is reluctant to get involved in women's hockey as…

Jun

2024

By Lily Chang

The future of Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services

Science and Technology

Related media - Latest news Ted Sarandos, 59, co-CEO of Netflix, worked his way up in the now-defunct DVD industry before moving straight to Netflix when the company was still renting DVDs by mail. Mike Hopkins, 55, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, was immersed in digital as CEO of Hulu, the pioneering streaming service owned by Disney, Fox and NBCU, before joining Sony as head of its unit television in 2017. to Amazon in 2020 and reports to the company's CEO, Andy Jassy, 56, who has no professional experience in the entertainment field. Over the past five…

Jun

2024

By Lily Chang

Biden proposes eliminating medical debt from credit reports

Investments and Business

Related media - News 24 hours That has changed significantly in recent years, as the three national credit reporting agencies – TransUnion, Equifax and Experian – have eliminated much of that debt from credit reports. In the last two years, they stopped reporting debts less than $500 and debts less than a year in collections. According to a recent study by the Urban Institute, these changes have erased medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans. The percentage of Americans with unpaid healthcare bills on their credit reports dropped from 12% in August 2022 to 5% in August…

Jun

2024

By Lily Chang

FDA reviews MDMA therapy for PTSD, citing health risks and study flaws

Health

More news - Latest news Research like the current research into MDMA therapy has blocked support from various groups and lawmakers in both parties for treating post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that affects millions of Americans, particularly military veterans who are at enormous risk of suicide . No new treatments for PTSD have been approved for more than 20 years. “What's happening is really a paradigm shift for psychiatry,” said David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelia and Neurotherapy at UC Davis. “MDMA represents an important step for the industry because there is a real lack of effective treatments…