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Depression, sometimes called the common cold of psychiatry, affects an estimated 10% of all Americans. But unlike the common cold, depression usually doesn't go away by itself. People age 65 and older are particularly susceptible. Of the 34 million older people in this country, about 6 million suffer from chronic depression...
...performance. According to a Johns Hopkins University study called "Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Illness," about 40% of the U.S. working-age population has some form of chronic condition, defined as any that persists for a year or longer. With the number of workers who suffer from chronic illnesses like asthma and diabetes on the rise, and life expectancy extending for patients with diseases like cancer and AIDS, employers are looking for new ways to manage and retain chronically ill employees, attempting to navigate a terrain studded with legal, logistical and insurance land mines...
...cells of Russia's overcrowded prisons has emerged a serial killer that is as devious as it is dangerous. Its name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it sallies forth on spumes of sputum each time an infected inmate coughs or sneezes. As many as 10% of Russia's million prisoners suffer active TB; in at least 1 case out of 5, the bacillus is a multidrug-resistant strain. Now M. tuberculosis in virulent forms is stalking ordinary citizens in Russian cities and towns, and soon, if it hasn't done so already, it will hitch a ride on an airplane...
...will this change our lives? The drugs we take? The pains we suffer? The diseases that finally do us in? The answers are as surprising as the science that is producing them. In the pages that follow we will try to give you a glimpse of the future by looking over the shoulders of the scientists who are searching--both genetically and the old-fashioned way--for tomorrow's miracle drugs. And in our first A to Z guide to the year in medicine, we will review the advances and setbacks--from aids cocktails to zinc supplements--that made...
...found the best sound on Tuneto (near CD quality rather than FM radio on Sonicnet and AM radio on Mongomusic), because it stores songs on your PC rather than streaming them. But it also seemed to suffer from short (and thus repetitive) playlists. I love Bjork, but there are only so many times I can hear Violently Happy in half an hour...