Word: prozac
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...illness, could relate to. She miscarried 10 weeks into her only pregnancy in 1997. As she later wrote in a candid essay to her church, "I felt like I had fallen from a huge cliff, without a parachute, and hit bottom with an incredible thud." Eventually, with prayer and Prozac, Roni recovered. And she used the experience in her mission work, advising other grieving women to put their relationship with God before their personal desires...
...wort came into its own in 1984, when the German government classified it as an MAO inhibitor, on the basis of in-vitro studies, and approved its use as a mild, natural antidepressant. Sales took off both in Germany, where St. John's wort easily outsells prescription drugs like Prozac, and in the U.S., where concoctions of the herb, sold under such labels as Mood Support and Brighten Up, became flagships of the booming alternative- medicine industry. Before last year's warnings that St. John's wort could interfere with other medications--notably AIDS treatments, antibiotics, cardiac drugs and oral...
...home and do what you want," says Dr. Lauren Shaiova, an end-of-life expert at Manhattan's Beth Israel hospital. She says that is sometimes the only solution for dying people crushed by fatigue and darkness. Says Shaiova: "What are you going to do, just give them Prozac? That can fail for people who have everything to live for." Can bureaucrats really settle such issues? The Dutch will point...
Here's one prescription: Up your dosage of drug stocks. No matter how bad the economy gets, consumers aren't likely to cut spending on drugs and medical care. In fact, as debts rise and losses mount, they may be racing to buy more Prozac (Eli Lilly). These stocks aren't immune to the broader market's misfortune. The American Stock Exchange Pharmaceutical Index has fallen 12.8% since Jan. 2, while Standard & Poor's 500 is down 8.4%. But drug stocks offer something that has been scarce in this environment--profit growth...
...That's no surprise, according to a study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the report, St. John's Wort, long hailed as the "natural Prozac," doesn't do a whole lot for people with moderate to serious depression...