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Edward Leamer, director of economic consultants at UCLA Anderson Forecast, thinks Scheid and others like him will be disappointed. Leamer is a bubble believer who expects rising interest rates to sock anyone with grand plans for double-digit housing gains in coming years. "In buying a home now, people should be acting like there will be no appreciation," Leamer cautions. "Don't be building cockamamy ideas about how this market is going to go up forever at 15% a year...
...term relief of menopausal miseries. For in a strange sort of way, the study brings HRT back to the basics, doing what it always did best--alleviating intense hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings during the limited period in which they occur. "Estrogens," says Dr. Howard Judd of UCLA, one of the WHI principal investigators, "are still the best, and in many ways the only, way of treating menopause...
ALSO WAITING... Similarly, it can take weeks before patients suffering from depression respond to medication--and even then, first drugs fail up to 40% of the time. But UCLA researchers have shown that brain scans can predict whether a drug will work long before patients sense any change. The sooner ineffective drugs can be abandoned, the sooner patients feel better...
...according to a survey published last January by researchers from UCLA, less than 25% of Americans with anxiety disorders receive any kind of treatment for their condition. "If mental health is the stepchild of the health-care system," says Jerilyn Ross, president of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, "then anxiety is the stepchild of the stepchild...
...father, a Bangladeshi immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1971 and met Yasin’s mother, who is mostly of Irish-American descent, at UCLA. Yasin was born in Chicago, and has subsequently lived in Indonesia, suburban Chicago, Southern California, and finally Scituate, Mass., where he attended the small town’s public schools from the sixth grade onward...