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...decades ago, kids with severe forms of those illnesses may have been too sick to go to college. But with the advent of antidepressants and mood stabilizers like Prozac and Zoloft, many of these students can thrive on campus. College counselors say the number of students requesting mental-health services has climbed considerably in the past decade...
...very effectiveness of modern treatment means that a lot of people who never would have made it into college are stable enough to go to universities," says Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins. "[Colleges] are dealing with a lot of kids who are very sick...
...Brazilian passport--who earned his spurs as an aggressive turnaround artist at Michelin, the tire company, and then Renault. To bring Nissan to heel, the 46-year-old used psychological leverage that nobody had ever bothered to exploit in Japan. "People within the company were convinced that Nissan was sick and could die," he says. "They knew it had to change, and they were willing to help...
...genomic medicine, this halting, inefficient approach should give way to something much more rational and systematic. Doctors will treat diseases like cancer and diabetes before the symptoms even begin, using medications that boost or counteract the effects of individual proteins with exquisite precision, attacking sick cells while leaving healthy cells alone, and they will know right from the start how to select the best medicine to suit each patient...
...like a something that should be located somewhere in Orlando, equidistant from Space Mountain and The Pirates of the Caribbean. There is a theme park quality to this part of the tour. I've never liked theme parks, never quite understood the need to pay strangers to make you sick and put your life in danger. I'm partial to museums, planetariums and bookstores, which is probably why my grade-school- age nephews consider me the least entertaining uncle in the universe...