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The final panel from this Years National black writers conference. Thank you for coming out this afternoon. We really, really, really are glad to see you here and glad you stayed over these four days. When i founded the center for black literature in 2003, one of the major goals was to host the National Black writer withs conference, and it was a vision of john oliver kilns who was poet and writer in residence at that time, and he would have been 100 years in january. He wanted to support the work of black writers by hosting programs and holding a conference every year. And we did this through...

Federal health authorities are intensifying their scrutiny of the drug ketamine for treating mental health disorders, as the mind-altering compound grows in popularity despite the lack of regulatory approval for such use.

The poll from the University of California, Berkeley is the first of its kind.

ONTARIO — While multiple charges of unfair labor practices filed on behalf of nurses represented by a union at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Ontario are under review by the National Labor

“I was, you know, living like a zombie,” Amanda says. “Not even living,” she corrects herself. “Just existing.” Her illness wrecked her career as a veterinary technician. It robbed her of the ability to effectively parent her daughter who was just six when Amanda went into the hospital. After she was discharged, she moved from Surrey to Sechelt. She was still suicidal, she tells me. Then two years ago, her life changed. On one of the days Amanda was able to get out of bed, she saw psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Barale at the Sechelt Hospital. Barale had begun prescribing ketamine to hel...