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RITALIN For millions of children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), drugs like Ritalin have been a godsend. Yet at the same time there is real concern that the use of Ritalin to curb all manner of fidgety behavior has become too casual and that the drug is actually being abused as a performance booster. A Duke University study suggested that the drug is, in fact, both over- and underprescribed. The Duke team found that 25% of kids with confirmable ADHD are not getting the drug, while more than half the kids who take the drug should...
Doctors have already shown that drugs called statins, which curb the body's ability to manufacture excess cholesterol, can significantly reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack. But statins don't work for everyone. So drug companies are studying the biochemical pathways by which the body pulls cholesterol that has already been manufactured out of a cell. "By turning this reverse cholesterol transport on, you'd be able to stimulate removal of cholesterol from vessel walls back to the liver for excretion," says Dr. Richard Gregg, vice president of metabolic- and cardiovascular-drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Taken...
...Ritalin For millions of children who suffer from with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), drugs like Ritalin have been a godsend. Yet at the same time there is real concern that the use of Ritalin to curb all manner of fidgety behavior has become too casual and that the drug is actually being abused as a performance booster. A Duke University study suggested that the drug is, in fact, both over- and underprescribed. The Duke team found that 25% of kids with confirmable adhd are not getting the drug, while more than half of kids who are taking the drug...
...status. And President Vladimir Putin is quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions that run counter to U.S. interests on the world stage - rebuilding Soviet-era relationships from Baghdad to Havana, openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only days before the U.S. presidential election, Russia withdrew from an agreement with Washington to refrain from selling weapons to Iran. The U.S. has yet to react...
...answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with Belgrade before the Bush Administration carries out its threat to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The new government of President Vojislav Kostunica is prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room for more fighting inside Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, and the furor in NATO over the use of depleted-uranium weapons in the Balkans may signal growing discord...