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Before the end of the year, U.S. insomniacs will spend more than $170 million and gobble hundreds of millions of pills in their search for sleep. But will they really sleep better? Not always, says Dr. William Dement, head of Stanford University's Sleep Disorders Clinic. Last week Dement reported that sleeping pills can actually keep some people awake and cause emotional problems that may be worse than insomnia...
When he died of a heart attack Oct. 10 in the Rochester, Minn., hotel room where he was staying as an outpatient of the Mayo Clinic, a bizarre chain of events began to unfold. His death was kept from the press and public for more than 24 hours while top aides searched through his office at the state capital, ostensibly to remove personal papers that Powell would not have wished to be made public...
...program, who see it as a first step rather than an ultimate solution, are confident that they can make the plan work. Their confidence seems justified. The PHS currently has seven times as many applications as it has vacancies in its commissioned officer corps, and enough hospital and clinic facilities, if used efficiently, to meet existing needs...
...Kansas has heeded Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, a searing prison critic (The Crime of Punishment), and set up a felon's "diagnostic center" near the Menninger Clinic in Topeka. The state now sends all prison-bound felons to the center for exhaustive tests by four full-time psychiatrists and numerous other experts. Result: half these men get probation. Among all such Kansas probationers, the failure rate has dropped to 25%, much less than in other states. Congress has approved a similar $15 million center in New York City to screen federal defendants after arrest...
...sociopsychology department at Frankfurt's Sigmund Freud Institute, started his first "play school for parents" in Ulm, Germany, in 1955. Since that time, several additional Brocher-inspired schools have opened in Germany and other European countries, and the concept is now being tested at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas...