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...notably Dr. Stuart Seidman, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, are skeptical, insisting that there is nowhere near enough data to support the idea that testosterone has anything to do with depression. Other tentative links between genes and depression, however, are also emerging. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, for example, have found four spots on chromosomes that appear to help code for depression only in women and at least one that seems to do the same only...
...environmental-protection laws and states and cities that are bankrupt. If Bush is a President of the people, I would like to know who those people are. I will be very active during the next presidential race working to remove this prancing peacock from office. FRANCES J. BELL Pittsburgh...
Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tend to have a hard time in school--and after school too. A new study by the University of Pittsburgh finds that children with severe, persistent ADHD are more likely to drink, smoke cigarettes and use other drugs as teenagers. The good news, according to another study by Massachusetts General Hospital, is that if these children are treated with Ritalin (itself no panacea), they are no more likely than their peers without ADHD to develop drug and alcohol problems...
...they were destined to beat the hockey powerhouse that was then the Soviet national team. They did, 4-3, in a game that instantly became famous. They next beat Finland to win the gold medal. He went on to coach four NHL teams, including the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins, and returned to the Olympics last year to coach Team U.S.A. to a silver medal...
DIED. PETER SAFAR, 79, anesthesiologist known as the father of CPR; of cancer; at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. A native of Vienna who came to the U.S. for a residency at Yale, he developed the lifesaving technique known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a combination of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac compression. He also helped set standards for other aspects of emergency care, including the training of technicians, the assembling of intensive-care units and the prevention of brain damage after cardiac arrest...