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...cure for depression worse than the illness? The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory committee recently answered in the affirmative in their recommendation to brand antidepressants with a “black box” warning label. Apparently, antidepressants and youth depression don’t mix; studies have documented a minimal increase in suicidal thoughts among children and adolescents taking prescribed antidepressants compared with those taking a placebo. This is worrisome indeed—not for the two or three percent on antidepressants who would experience heightened thoughts and ideas of suicide, but for the tens...
BUSH Sure, but not to say cures are at our fingertips, because they're not with stem cells. I know what it's like to have a parent suffer from Alzheimer's. And to give people the idea that there is going to be a cure next year for Alzheimer's--or for anything else--is just not right...
Compassion? There's nothing less compassionate than to construct a political constituency of sufferers (and their loved ones) by falsely and cruelly intimating that their disease is on the very cusp of cure if only the President would stop playing politics with the issue. Why, after all, was Reagan addressing the nation on a subject of which he knows nothing? Because his famous father died of Alzheimer's, and some (including, sadly, Nancy Reagan) have been led to believe that Alzheimer's is curable using stem cells. This is nonsense. Cynical nonsense. Or as Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem-cell...
...became the costliest U.S. disaster prior to 9/11. But those lessons were ephemeral. People have continued to move into Florida's dense metropolises, perched on the water's edge. And virtual cities of trailer parks have sprung up alongside vulnerable inlets. Some call it hurricane amnesia, and a cure is not in sight...
Stojkovic, who holds that life begins after 14 days, when the nervous system starts to form. London-based Human Genetics Alert warns that the techniques could be used to clone babies, something Stojkovic opposes. "I believe in embryonic stem cells," he says. If he can come up with a cure for diabetes, many people will believe along with...