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...long associated with low self-control, binge drinking and substance use. Half of the participants were randomly enrolled in drug prevention programs. After five years, those participants with 5-HTTLPR who were enrolled in a prevention program were no more likely than their counterparts in the comparison group, without the gene, to have engaged in drinking, smoking marijuana, and sexual activity. Youths with the gene, who were in the comparison group, were twice as likely to have engaged in these risky behaviors as their peers in the prevention group...
...much easier and cost-effective to modulate an individual's environment than it is to alter their genetic code," says Buckholtz. And until the gene is better understood, that investment will pay off for those with the MAO-A defect and those without...
...most expecting mothers and their doctors aren't keen on exposing a still developing fetus to medications. Now, researchers from Israel and Canada report in the New England Journal of Medicine that a commonly prescribed heartburn drug, which also has anti-nausea properties, may be used in pregnant women without causing harm to babies. (See safety issues about taking pills during pregnancy...
...rain while greeting voters at the Clarendon Metro Station. Half an hour late, Deeds cited the one excuse that is always plausible in northern Virginia: traffic, literally the top issue of the campaign. Though his blue suit was turning dark around the shoulders with moisture, Deeds wandered about without an umbrella shaking hands with everyone in sight, including the media. Deeds, who represents rural Bath County in western Virginia, had languished in third place until he received his own big endorsement, this one a surprisingly resounding one from the Washington Post, that has helped double his poll numbers...
...would continue. Michael Gallagher and others are calling for an independent inquiry to be set up by the British and Irish governments to further investigate the Omagh atrocity. Other killings carried out during Northern Ireland's 25-year sectarian conflict have been the subjects of similar investigations, and not without controversy. The Saville Inquiry into the 1972 shooting of 27 civil-rights marchers in Derry by British army soldiers is already in its 10th year and, despite having cost an estimated $320 million so far, has yet to deliver its final report. The result is that the Northern Irish public...