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...Mental illnesses are serious illnesses. When individuals suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, or from one of the plethora of other chronic diseases, their pain is real, and they need real help. An overemphasis on mild forms of depression and anxiety ties up resources that should be used for major mental illnesses. Some people feel blue, and some people are suicidal. When medicine starts to forget the distinction between the two, everyone loses. Healthy people begin to wonder if they truly are healthy, while the genuinely ill are trivialized...
Most people have, from time to time, unintentionally dozed off on the couch watching television or reading a book or even stopped in traffic while driving. But persistent drowsiness during the day usually signals a chronic sleep deficit, and bigger problems. The new study found that people who suffered from "significant dozing" - those who almost always fell asleep involuntarily during the day - were 4.5 times more likely to have a stroke than people in the "no dozing" group. The association between sleepiness and stroke was dose-dependent: the sleepier the person, the higher the risk of stroke. People...
...while the stereotype of a chronic debtor is of someone who is simply careless about spending money and paying bills on time, this is rarely the case. "Delinquency and default are nearly always due to loss of job or a 'life event' such as health problems (and medical bills), death or divorce," wrote analyst Chris Brendler of Stifel Nicolaus in a January report. Today's unemployment rate has yet to cause alarm, but it's the X factor that could determine how much worse credit-card defaults may get as recession looms...
...Public safety isn't the only challenge the interim government has failed to negotiate. Fiscal mismanagement has led to chronic fuel shortages across the country; lines in Kathmandu extend for kilometers and prices have tripled in less than half a year. Last week, protests against rising fuel prices shut down the capital. Kathmandu residents face at least six hours of power cuts a day. The government has been unable to raise Nepal's middling growth rate, which hovers around 2%, and funds many of its programs on an IV drip of foreign aid. Trade-union activism and general strikes, some...
...reported receiving at least one dose of the three-dose vaccine. Even for the well-publicized flu vaccine, immunization rates are far below national targets. The CDC wants 90% coverage among at-risk Americans: adults over 50, people with certain existing conditions like heart or lung disease, dormitory or chronic-care-facility residents and workers, people who work or live with small children, and - especially - healthcare workers, who can spread the disease easily. Influenza kills an estimated 36,000 people in the U.S. every year - more than prostate cancer or AIDS - but the current rate for the target group...