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...Given the gaps in the science behind the SSRIs and their risk of serious side effects (about half of all users experience side effects ranging from mild to severe), you might think doctors would be very selective in prescribing them - writing scripts only for those people in a deep and prolonged misery that can't be traced to everyday problems. But caution doesn't seem to rule here. In Australia, about 85% of those annual 12 million antidepressant scripts are written not by psychiatrists but by G.P.s, typically at the end of a consultation lasting 20 min. or less...
...Recent reviews of the data from SSRI trials indicate that placebos are on average 80% as effective as the drugs. But this is misleading, argues Parker. The typical subject in the trials, he says, did not have the more serious melancholic depression that doctors invariably treat with drugs but a milder form more likely to resolve spontaneously or from non-drug therapies. A view common among doctors is that if antidepressant trials looked exclusively at people with melancholic depression, the gap in efficacy between the drug and a placebo would widen...
...University of Massachusetts, where St. Pierre went to school, the local and state police, rather than private campus police, are the ones called in to deal with offenses, he said, which can mean much more serious consequences...
...ever witnessed Dershowitz playing poker, she would fire him because of his lackluster skill. The majority of the event—held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston—was dedicated to poking fun at the 67-year-old Dershowitz, but the dinner also had its more serious moments as friends and colleagues praised the celebrity attorney and veteran law professor. In a letter written by Clinton and recited aloud by a presenter, the former president commended Dershowitz for the “fine example” he has set for others. “Whether defending...
...Second Continental Congress appointed Samuel Nicholas to organize the first two battalions of the Marines Corps on Nov. 10, 1775. According to the PowerPoint presentation, Nicholas recruited his first service members in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern by offering them beer. The presentation ended with a more serious discussion of the situation in Iraq. Referring to an operation in Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Anbar province, Gurfein emphasized the dedication of Marines currently serving overseas. “They believe in their mission,” he said. “They’re doing the best...