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...requirement that symptoms be "excessive" in proportion to cause. In fact, the revised manual said nothing about causes and listed symptoms instead. To be diagnosed with major depressive disorder today, you need have only five symptoms for two weeks, which can include such common problems as depressed mood, weight gain, insomnia, fatigue and indecisiveness. The DSM does make an exception for bereavement: if you recently lost a loved one, such symptoms are not considered disordered. But the manual doesn't make exceptions for other things that make us sad--divorce, financial stress, a life-threatening illness...
...This must be easy now that you don’t have to worry about your course load at Harvard,’” Wendt said. “You see a lot of these guys where it is kind of a weight lifted off their shoulders...
...abortion - using drugs versus surgery - on women's long-term reproductive health. After adjusting for variables such as maternal age, number of births prior to abortion and gestational age at the time of abortion, researchers found no increase in risk of ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, premature birth or low birth weight in the medication group, as compared with the women who got surgical abortions. In both groups, ectopic pregnancies occurred about 2.4% of the time; miscarriages occurred about 12.5% of the time...
...medical abortions are slim. One other paper, a Chinese study published in 2004, also in the American Journal of Epidemiology compared three groups of women - those who had no abortion, one surgical abortion or one medical abortion - and found no difference among them in risk of low birth weight or premature birth...
...Defense News, Kris Osborne reports that Exponent, a California firm, has had its MARCbot series since April 2004. They cost about $10,000 apiece, weigh 25 lbs and can be used at night. Meanwhile, Defense News says that Foster-Miller, a Massachussets company, may propose a lighter-weight version of its current 115 to 140 lb. TALON model...