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...life events such as divorce or death or even a happy rite of passage like starting college. And bipolar disorder can also be set off this way. "Most of us do not think environmental stress causes the disorder," says Dr. Michael Gitlin, head of the mood-disorders clinic at UCLA. "But it can trigger it in people who are already vulnerable...
SEPARATED. CONJOINED TWINS, in a 22-hour operation; in Los Angeles. Year-old Guatemalan sisters Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, who were joined at the skull and faced different directions, are progressing well after a 50-member team at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA worked around the clock to separate the shared skull and untangle the blood vessels that connected them. Born to Alba Leticia Alvarez, 23, and Wenceslao Quiej Lopez, 21, a banana packer, the girls, whose development prior to the surgery was normal, have been given a good chance of survival...
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...