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...past decade, psychiatrists have been working on the fifth edition of the DSM - referred to as DSM-V - to refine the classifications used by mental-health professionals to diagnose and research disorders. Without a listing in the DSM, it's tough to get treatment covered by insurance. And for researchers angling for grant money, a disorder's absence from the DSM makes it hard to get research funded. (See "The Year in Health...
...many women with less severe cases of depression may opt to forgo medications. Ariela Frieder, a psychiatrist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., says treatment for these women should be geared toward the particular stress factors and contributors to their mood disorder. "We tend to think of depression as having multiple origins. It could be due to the circumstances in her life, there could be a genetic factor, or the woman could have a history of depression," says Frieder, who patient-tailors treatments that involve a combination of psychotherapy, support groups, yoga, exercise, peer counseling and, if needed...
...goal of this treatment is for President Clinton to resume his very active lifestyle," said Schwartz, who said he told Clinton he could go back to work on Monday. "It makes him less susceptible to future heart attacks...
...some experts say the inherent ambiguity of DSDs makes the idea of treatment problematic. For instance, one sex development disorder, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, causes females to produce abnormal amounts of male sex hormones and is treated by administering steroids to normalize hormone levels. Panel participant Dr. Eric Vilain, professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, points out that there is tremendous variation in hormone levels even in typical females, which makes determining a baseline virtually impossible. More important, Vilain says, is the ethical question of whether physicians should artificially alter hormone levels...
...treating the foreigners better than Haitian citizens, specifically when police officers cover the Americans' faces with jackets to shield them from the prying camera lenses. "If it was a Haitian, they would hit him over the head, not protect him," says Andrea Brezeau, 48. Tension over this preferential treatment erupted even among Haitian journalists. As Haitian police officers transferred the missionaries from a police vehicle to a jail cell, one Haitian female journalist threw stones at the Americans screaming, "They should be showing their faces. They don't have a right to cover their faces...