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...PLoS Medicine a year earlier suggested that widely used SSRIs, including Prozac, Effexor and Paxil, offer no clinically significant benefit over placebos for patients with moderate or severe depression. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies maintain that their research shows that SSRIs are powerful weapons against depression. (Here's a helpful blog post that summarizes the debate...
...Instead, the Obama Administration jumped with both feet into the 140-character Twitterverse on May 1 with a one-sentence post on how Americans can learn about swine flu directly by joining social networks with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "We wanted to use these tools to some end, some effect, some public good," said Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media. (See the best social-networking applications...
...Sherzai had continued with his campaign he would have had to step down from his presidential-appointed post as governor - a prestigious and influential position he would be unlikely to regain if he lost to Karzai. A spokesman for Sherzai said his boss "decided Karzai would be a better leader for Afghanistan." Sherzai's campaign manager was stunned. "This is an absolute betrayal of everything we worked on," spluttered Khalid Pashtoon...
...fewer awards were distributed on Monday evening. “Due to some underperformance in the Harvard endowment, there was not as much funding to provide these awards,” said PBHA Executive Director Gene A. Corbin. While three students in years past had received the Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship—a prize that comes with $25,000—only one student received the award. Katherine A. Carroll ’09, who was awarded the fellowship, will continue her work as a coordinator at a youth center in Dorchester after graduation. In addition, Alyssa...
...little technical control over what will be the nation's most important order of business during his five-year presidency (he is constitutionally limited to one term). That's the Panama Canal expansion, a massive dig that will add a third set of locks able to handle the supersize, "post-Panamax" ships. Those vessels can hold up to 12,000 20-ft.-long containers and are considered the future of commercial-cargo shipping...