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...SCHIZOPHRENIA Americans spend about $10 billion a year for antipsychotic medications, but are we getting our money's worth? Not according to a landmark government-funded trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It found that Risperdal, Seroquel and Geodon, three of the new "atypical antipsychotics" that doctors widely prescribe to treat schizophrenia, are no more effective--and no safer--than an older and much cheaper generic drug called perphenazine. The study was another reminder that the flashy new compounds coming out of pharmaceutical labs may not be worth the high price tags they command. Perphenazine, for example...
...discovery of a 20-year-old Reagan White House job application documenting his specific political opinions. Colorado Democratic Senator Ken Salazar said Alito's objection to a constitutionally recognized right to abortion could force Democrats to block him. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) lambasted Alito's position on a landmark 1962 Supreme Court case that made states judicially accountable for drawing accurate voting districts...
When you enter this landmark, forgo any ideas you had of putting ketchup on your burger. Louis’ claims to have invented the hamburger in 1900 and believes that theirs are so good, ketchup can only ruin the flavor. For a less intense, yet just as historical hamburger, try The Yankee Doodle, in the middle of downtown New Haven...
PRAGUE LA PERLE DE PRAGUE This Frank Gehry--designed landmark earned the city's highest décor rating from Zagat's and a central place in Cool Restaurants Prague, right, which features stunning photos of its grandeur...
...John Ratey, co-author of the landmark Driven to Distraction, says seniors are often referred by their children in a "stair-step" sequence--first the grandchild is found to have ADD, then the parent and finally Grandma or Grandpa. Recalls Virginia Cooper, 73, who has a grandchild with ADHD: "My daughter said, 'Mother, I think you've got it.' And I said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' But then I read about it and realized that maybe she was right. I've always been distracted. I cannot stick to one thing. It's like somebody's changing channels in my brain...