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...Mental illnesses are serious illnesses. When individuals suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, or from one of the plethora of other chronic diseases, their pain is real, and they need real help. An overemphasis on mild forms of depression and anxiety ties up resources that should be used for major mental illnesses. Some people feel blue, and some people are suicidal. When medicine starts to forget the distinction between the two, everyone loses. Healthy people begin to wonder if they truly are healthy, while the genuinely ill are trivialized...
...Mild TBI is the "signature wound" of the Iraq war, afflicting up to 250,000 troops. It nearly doubles the chance of developing PTSD, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. While severe TBI cases are easily identified by bloodied and broken craniums, disorders in which brains are rattled inside intact skulls by IEDS (improvised explosive devices) are harder, and sometimes impossible, to diagnose...
...prospect of drug-resistant strains of influenza A? Only modestly, says World Health Organization spokeswoman Sari Setiogi in Geneva. "Influenza A has been circulating for many years. It's not likely to cause a pandemic," she says. The patients who gave samples for the European study all showed only mild symptoms. What's more, just because a flu bug has adapted to survive drug treatment, it doesn't mean the bug is necessarily more dangerous to humans. In fact, lab studies suggest that Tamiflu-resistant flu viruses may be less infectious...
...badly Asia will feel the effects of the U.S. slump depends on its depth and duration. A mild, relatively short U.S. downturn might not be entirely a bad thing in the country that's become the world's second growth engine: China. Most economists believe inflation remains China's biggest risk going forward, and a slow down in the export sector - now unavoidable - could actually do the People's Bank of China's work for it: cool the economy a bit without the need for another rise in interest rates. (The PBOC raised rates six times...
...clear that mild and short is what the U.S. will get. Merrill Lynch & Co. put out a chilling forecast on Jan. 22, saying that the U.S. housing debacle has a long way to run. According to Merrill, nationwide home prices could fall 25 to 30 percent from present levels, which, if true, would put U.S. consumption on ice for a prolonged period...