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...years is a long time to go before finding the right treatment. Have you learned anything that could help others speed up the process? I'd advise people to go to a teaching hospital because the doctors there are less likely to be bought by big Pharma, and they're more connected to the research. It's easy to take the samples and to be lazy. At a teaching hospital, you're more apt to find a psychiatrist who will listen to your story and prescribe medications they know work. My doctor is open to drugs like lithium that have...
...first anabolic steroid, known as methandrostenolone and marketed in 1958 by Ciba Pharmaceuticals as Dianabol. But there was already a dark side. Ziegler's test subjects quickly started abusing the drugs and developed such side effects as swollen prostates or shrunken testicles - an outcome that would prompt the doctor to condemn his own creation before his death in 1983. Nonetheless, by the early 1960s pharmaceutical companies had developed nearly a dozen rival steroids, which quickly gained popularity off-label with athletes. In 1976, the International Olympic Committee became the first sports group to ban steroids. (See the top 10 sporting...
...previous version of this post stated incorrectly that Lewis' book, Poison! The Doctor's Dilemma, is only available for Kindle. In fact, the title is also available in paperback on Amazon.com...
That assurance was given at a time when Blair was publicly pushing the U.N. to force Saddam into compliance. Campbell denied any lack of sincerity in the efforts to secure a solution through the U.N. The former spin doctor has already given evidence to a number of inquiries with narrower investigative remits and has published a thick volume of his diaries. His central narrative remains consistent: Blair believed there was a growing threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction; he worked hard for a peaceful solution and to steer an overeager Washington away from precipitate action against Iraq. Campbell...
...Qaeda circle around Ayman al-Zawahiri, the movement's top ideologue and second-in-command who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan's tribal wilds. Al-Balawi was a known presence on radical Islamic websites; he was Arab; and, like al-Zawahiri, he was a trained doctor whose medical skills were needed in treating al-Qaeda and Taliban war casualties...