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...Brighten Up, became flagships of the booming alternative- medicine industry. Before last year's warnings that St. John's wort could interfere with other medications--notably AIDS treatments, antibiotics, cardiac drugs and oral contraceptives--yearly sales had reached $310 million. Even today, some 1.5 million Americans take the extract regularly to treat their psychic pain...
...hope they're doing something else to make themselves feel better, because the bloom may just have come off this flower. In what is by far the most definitive study yet of the efficacy of St. John's wort in treating major depression, doctors last week concluded that the extract is essentially useless. On the basis of these findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Shelton, a psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University and the study's lead author, says flatly that he wouldn't recommend St. John's wort to any of his patients...
...China, torture is institutionalized and an everyday part of law enforcement. The government-initiated “strike-hard” anti-crime campaigns have given tax collectors, judges, court clerks, party leaders and other officials a free reign on using torture to extract confessions and information from “criminals” like Zhou Jiangxiong. These practices are particularly prevalent in restive Tibet and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where ethnic minorities and their families undergo various forms of cruel and unusual punishment if they are even suspected of being involved in separatist activities...
...latest exchanges of fire confirm that rather than showing signs of abating, violent clashes are actually escalating despite the Israelis' new hard line. The Palestinian Authority (PA) may be open to a cease-fire, but they'll need to extract a political price for it. In Athens, the PA reiterated its demand that talks resume where they left off with Ehud Barak, but that's a scenario Sharon has ruled out. The Israeli leader wants to restore calm and security, but he has no interest in putting the Oslo peace process back together...
...oil” has increased. Since the amount of “technically recoverable oil” is between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels, as oil prices rise, so will the amount of oil economically recoverable. Furthermore, as the technology for oil drilling improves, oil companies are able to extract more oil at cheaper costs and at smaller deposit areas, which will also increase the amount available. With the 1998 estimates higher than the 1987 results, many predict that there might be even more oil available than can be detected by current surveying equipment...