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Helsinki residential street showing Finland Housing First social housing neighborhood

2025 C.E. April 18

Finland’s Housing First policy cut homelessness by 75% in 16 years

Finland Housing First is the policy behind one of the most remarkable social achievements of the 21st century. Since 2008, Finland cut homelessness by 75% — the only EU nation where the long-term trend has consistently fallen. The Y-Foundation, now Finland's fourth-largest landlord, manages 18,000 apartments across 57 cities. The model: give people a permanent home first, no conditions, and support them from there. Research shows the approach saves €15,000 per homeless person per...

Psilocybin mushrooms representing New Mexico psilocybin therapy medical program

2025 C.E. April 14

New Mexico becomes third U.S. state to legalize psilocybin therapy

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed SB 219 into law, effectively legalizing psilocybin-assisted therapy for qualifying patients across the state. The new law establishes a tightly regulated framework allowing for the medical use of psilocybin in treating conditions like treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, substance use disorders, and end-of-life anxiety. Under the program, therapy will consist of preparation, guided psilocybin therapy, and follow-up integration sessions. However, for everyone outside the program, possession and use of mushrooms...

Wind turbines generating US renewable energy on American power grid

2025 C.E. April 4

Fossil fuels fall below 50% of U.S. electricity for the first time since the 1800s

In March 2025, fossil fuels fell below 50% of U.S. electricity generation for the first time on record, according to data published by global energy think tank Ember. Clean sources — wind, solar, nuclear, and hydro — generated 50.8% of U.S. electricity that month, also a first. Wind and solar alone hit an all-time high of 24.4%, up from just 5.7% a decade earlier. The milestone is a monthly record, not an annual one,...

Journavx suzetrigine pill bottle representing FDA approved non-opioid pain medication by Vertex Pharmaceuticals

2025 C.E. February 3

U.S. FDA approves first new class of non-opioid pain medication in 20 years

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the first new type of pain reliever to be approved in more than two decades. The drug, suzetrigine, is a 50-milligram prescription pill that’s taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. Crucially, suzetrigine creates no euphoria or high like opioids sometimes can, so doctors believe there’s no potential for it to create addiction or dependence in people who use it.

Woman with pink breast cancer ribbon, breast cancer cure rates

2025 C.E. January 27

Australian researchers nearly double cure rates for the most common breast cancer

A Phase III clinical trial led by Professor Sherene Loi of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne found that adding immunotherapy drug nivolumab to standard pre-surgery chemotherapy nearly doubled breast cancer cure rates in patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer — the most common subtype, accounting for 70% of all cases. Published in Nature Medicine on Jan. 21, 2025, the results point toward a new treatment paradigm for a subtype that has historically...

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