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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to lose any more young people to this tragic regulation. They should try to protect themselves so that they don't have to deal with the confrontation, or lie, or put themselves in a precarious situation where they're going to have to respond. They should just do their job and do it well, and see if they can ride out the storm and give us a chance ((in court)) so that nobody else has to go through what I'm going through. As I told one person, "You're too valuable as you are, doing your work...
...quite recently, medicine didn't offer much of a chance either. While doctors and drugmakers have made impressive strides in treating other forms of mental illness, including depression and anxiety, progress against schizophrenia has been painfully slow. Fewer than half of America's 2 million to 3 million schizophrenics respond well enough to the standard treatment with Thorazine (chlorpromazine) and similar drugs to avoid further hospital visits. Most who do respond remain somewhat disabled, and about 80% are stuck with serious and humiliating side effects, including dulled emotions, a clumsy gait known as the "Thorazine shuffle," a compulsive foot-tapping...
...threatening blood defect and must be immediately taken off the medication. It is also extremely expensive, costing $4,160 annually for the drug itself and as much as $9,000 more for doctor-monitored treatment. But for some it brings miracles. Of 20,000 American schizophrenics who did not respond well to Thorazine and were given clozapine, more than half have shown significant improvement: they become less withdrawn, and the nagging inner voices grow hushed. One patient in 10 responds to the drug so dramatically that the effect is like being reborn. "You go from hating the sunshine...
What causes the error? "The improper choice of parents," says Wasserman. "Probably there is a genetic predisposition to respond with IgE, and if you're unlucky enough to have both the exposure and the predilection, then you're more likely to have allergies...
...reformers have made significant strides in streamlining the bloated bureaucracy. At least 140 functionaries used to monitor science developments for the party, union and republican authorities; now there are just 19. Still, in trying to respond as quickly as possible to the constant barrage of daily crises, Yeltsin's men have inadvertently created a bureaucratic jumble of their own, superimposing new agencies on top of old ones. Draft laws and decrees circulate among the government ministries, Golovkov's administration and a third, separate state legal bureau. Explains Justice Minister Fedorov: "We are experimenting with new institutions. Many will not survive...