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With time still left on my 50 minutes, I asked the doctor if I'm too narcissistic. "Seems to me it's working for you pretty well," he said. "Don't fix what ain't broke." Finally, I posed my major self-improvement dilemma to him. "I think maybe I watch too much porn," I said, to which Dr. Phil replied, "Is it making you tired?" If being unable to stay awake is the definition of a problem, then perhaps I am actually not watching enough...
...biochemistry that worsens disease, there is every reason to expect that they will reduce its deadly impact. So Charney, Evans and other experts want to make physicians more aware of the intimate connection between depression and other illnesses. "When you only have roughly eight minutes with your primary doctor," says Lydia Lewis, president of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, "it's kind of hard to get into the realm of depression. And when you go to see a specialist, the cardiologist is thinking just about your heart...
...possible answer began to emerge after a Dutch woman consulted her doctor about whether to have kids. Her family had a history of violence, including rape and attempted murder. Would her children be violent too, she asked? Her doctor consulted geneticist Hans Brunner, who discovered that the family carried a defective gene: it made too much of an enzyme, called monoamine oxidase A, resulting in excessive destruction of neurotransmitters that help keep us calm and happy...
...history (football legend Pelé was the first). "We belong to the real Brazil that is finally starting to win a place in power, a place in the national leadership," he says. Gil grew up with the inequities Lula has vowed to fight. "I am the son of a doctor and a teacher, a son of the lower middle class who managed to ascend to the middle class," he says. "I know the poor communities, where more than 70% don't have the fundamental basics for human dignity. They live in a subhumanity." A keen environmental and social activist...
During the Commencement of 1959, then University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, calling him a “great-hearted, staunch-minded servant of order and justice in our country and the world...