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Depression often descends when people feel they are a burden to their families or when they feel useless. In studies with older subjects that go back to the 1950s and '60s, personal goals and structure in everyday life were found to be vital to maintaining mental health. Often depression can be overcome by engaging in purposeful activities such as continued paid work, volunteer work, education, hobbies and social contacts. Regular exercise, even walking, is also effective...
Even so, experts insist communication is vital, and say people can't always make proper use of their rights unless employers know how best to accommodate them. Says attorney Susan Slavin of Jericho, N.Y., who represents chronically ill individuals: "Once you open that dialogue, you're protected. You can't advocate for yourself if someone doesn't know your condition...
Logically it would seem that compounds that block the activity of either beta or gamma secretase should slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. But there are reasons to remain cautious. For one thing, it may turn out that both these secretases play vital roles in other aspects of cellular metabolism, so that interfering with them will come at the price of serious side effects. For another, it is still far from proven that beta amyloid is as central to Alzheimer's disease as, say, cholesterol is to heart disease. Says molecular neurologist Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop...
...hard to get worked up over a toenail fungus or a case of athlete's foot. But the fungi that cause these and dozens of other infections are not as trivial as they may seem. Fungi have a way of turning nasty--seeping into the bloodstream and invading vital organs. Lately they've been doing that more and more, thanks to increased travel (which exposes people to fungi for which they have no immunity) and to immunosuppressant drugs (which leave patients vulnerable to what would otherwise be innocuous fungal infections). "The kind of thing that used to grow on bread...
...Indeed, Powell vigorously opposed U.S. intervention in the Balkans on the grounds that there were no vital U.S. interests at stake, and his military doctrine would preclude the sort of limited air wars ordered up by Clinton against Iraq and Yugoslavia. Powell believes the Clinton administration's approach of limited use of force for limited objectives is the military equivalent of a Hail Mary pass - the outcome is far from certain, and if limited force fails it then becomes necessary for the U.S. to expand its commitment in what potentially can become a quagmire...