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...pregnant women who took valproate—a widely-prescribed anti-convulsive drug—about 8.9 percent gave birth to babies with major deformations such as heart defects, spina bifida and kidney abnormalities, a figure more than five times greater than the birth-defect rate of women who did not take valproate...
MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA Going Gallic Jacques Chirac's antiwar stance has earned him popularity at home - and with supporters abroad. The southern coastal city of Wollongong is threatening to "defect" to France to protest its own government's support for military action against Iraq. City councilmen will make their case this week to the French Consul General in Sydney...
...ways. Agents are contacting legal immigrants in the hope that they will advise the bureau if they see evidence of terrorist activity. The FBI is also urging Iraqis in the U.S. to call the bureau if they are in touch with friends and relatives back home who want to defect and are influential Iraqi military officers or have valuable intelligence to offer. Agents are also working stealthily, tracking down Iraqi nationals who have overstayed their visas and recruiting paid informants willing to infiltrate potentially violent groups...
Fortunately, scientists have made great strides in sorting out the underlying causes of depression: it is almost certainly a defect in some combination of key genes, plus the right triggering environment. And researchers are well along in developing some promising therapies, pharmacological and otherwise, to supplement what is already available. But while the disease-depression connection is becoming more and more clear, how to uncouple them is an uncharted process. "You would think that treatment would alter the negative relationship between depression and other illness," says Dr. Dennis Charney, head of mood-and anxiety-disorders research at the National Institute...
FETAL HEARTS In a surgical first, doctors fixed a deadly heart-valve defect in a 5-month-old fetus. Guided by ultrasound, they angled a needle-thin catheter into the aortic valve, a spot one-eighth of an inch in diameter in a beating heart the size of a grape. A minuscule balloon was then inflated to enlarge the constricted valve, which had been obstructing the flow of blood to the body. Eleven weeks later, doctors induced early labor, anticipating the need for another operation, but the repair job had worked so well that the 5-lb. 8-oz. healthy...