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...women were overweight or became overweight. In addition, more than 1 out of 3 was obese or became obese. There was some good news: a drug called rimonabant showed promise when used in combination with a restricted-calorie diet. But it's going to take more than a pill or a diet plan to reverse the long-term trends...
Anxious seekers of over-the-counter emergency contraception must continue to find an alternate plan. But it certainly won’t be Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, or “morning-after pill,” that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed unfit for over-the-counter distribution last May. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency...
...careful suggesting to Auckland clinical psychologist Gwendoline Smith that SSRIs don't work much better than a sugar pill. When depression first hit her 10 years ago she was reluctant to use medication, figuring she could get well by exercising more, adjusting her diet and smiling in front of a mirror. But for that approach to work, she says, she'd have needed to practice it for six to 12 stress-free months on a secluded island. Instead, she went on the drugs and felt better in two weeks. Author of the recently reprinted handbook Depression Explained (ABC Books), Smith...
...Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, Jureidini and others are bucking that trend. The strong showing of placebos in antidepressant trials should tell us something, he says. Subjects in the control group typically receive more than a sugar pill: they have their histories taken and they're monitored and encouraged. In many cases, this personal attention makes them feel better. So why not build on the placebo effect? Jureidini's team is working with 20 GPs in a soon-to-be-expanded pilot program that embraces, he says, a "third way" of treating depression in children and adolescents...
...polygamy the subject of entertainment." But Scheffer says, "This show is not really about polygamy, in the same way that The Sopranos is not really about the Mob." Except that Tony Soprano only has one family at home--to handle three, that takes real guts. And a little blue pill...