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...Stephen Barrett, a co-author of the American Medical Association's Reader's Guide to Alternative Health Methods, observes, "Most people with mild depression will do better with psychotherapy than with drugs. Therapy is generally more effective for these people in the long run than taking a pill--even if the pill works...
Less than a year ago, a new generation of diet pills seemed to offer the long-sought answer to our chronic weight problems. Hundreds of thousands of pound-conscious Americans had discovered that a drug combination known as "fen-phen" could shut off voracious appetites like magic, and the FDA had just approved a new drug, Redux, that did the same with fewer side effects. Redux would attract hundreds of thousands of new pill poppers within a few months...
...from Kensington Palace, new questions are being asked about Diana's death (People Daily) ... An Indian flag covers Mother Teresa's body as her adopted country salutes the Calcutta nun (Reuters) ... The doctor who wrote the definitive book on Redux has denounced the weight-loss drug (TIME Daily) ... Diet pill problems notwithstanding, Americans are living longer (Reuters), especially middle-aged mothers (TIME Daily) ... And more of them are doing grocery shopping online ? which is expected to become a $60-$80 billion-a-year industry in the next decade (The Netly News...
...populations may be destroyed by overexploitation before scientists even have a chance to study them. Public awareness and sympathy for sharks may ultimately prove the most effective weapon against hideous practices such as live finning and the destruction of sharks for their cartilage resulting from the baseless claims of pill pushers. To find out more about current shark research, visit the shark-research Website at www2.hawaii. edu/~carlm/tigershark.html CARL MEYER Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Kaneohe, Hawaii...
...latest in a series of setbacks for the new generation of diet pills. They were initially seen as an improvement over the old "speed"-based pills because they were nonaddictive and worked more subtly, stimulating production of the brain chemical serotonin, which is associated with feelings of satisfaction and satiety. But earlier this year neuroscientists complained that the FDA was not being forceful enough in pushing for follow-up studies on another serotonin-type diet pill, Redux, which is known to cause brain damage in rats. The FDA approved Redux last summer, despite its known problems, because it determined that...