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...problems that are, let's face it, very much made in the U.S.A. It has fired back fiercely. Premier Wen has called any talk about currency revaluation a form of "protectionism." His Commerce Minister later added that in any dispute between the two countries, "Americans and American companies" would suffer more than their Chinese counterparts. (See 25 sites we can't live without...
...rise in telepsychiatry has come largely out of need. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), between 7 million and 12 million youths suffer from mental, behavioral or developmental disorders. And a new nationally representative survey, funded in part by NIMH, indicates that 50% of the children in the U.S. who have certain mental disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder and depression are not being treated by a psychiatrist or other mental-health professional...
...obedience to authority figures, the scientists demanded that subjects administer increasingly strong electric shocks to other participants if they answered questions incorrectly. The people delivering the shocks, however, didn't know that the charges were fake - the volunteers on the other end of the room were actors pretending to suffer agonizing pain. The point was to see how many people would continue following orders to mete out torture. (See the world's most popular TV shows...
People with diabetes are twice as likely as nondiabetics to suffer a heart attack - most diabetes patients die of heart disease - and for years, physicians have used aggressive drug treatments to lower that risk. To that end, the goal has commonly been to lower blood sugar or control blood-sugar spikes after eating, lower triglycerides and reduce blood pressure in diabetes patients to levels closer to those of healthy, nondiabetic individuals. By using medication to treat these factors, which are linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke in other patients, doctors assumed they would also be reducing...
...participants' systolic blood pressure to either below 120 or 140 using a combination of drugs. But lower blood pressure did not lead to fewer heart attacks or heart-related deaths, and patients taking more drugs to keep their blood pressure under the lower target were more likely to suffer severe side effects...