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...book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (see my review from the magazine this week), Epstein argues that "many American teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like Animal House, Requiem for a Dream, Thirteen, Weird Science, Dazed and Confused, and Clueless," he writes. Animal House? It was released...
...Illegal drug use by teens is largely secret and ever changing. My impression from my older sons and from my students is that it's as serious as ever-and perhaps getting worse as formulas for mixing drugs at home become more common on the Internet. Hospital admission data tend to bear this out, and so does a new study by Ilene Anderson and her colleagues, showing a 15-fold increase in calls to emergency hotlines in California involving teen abuse of over-the-counter cough medicines between 1999 and 2004. "Pharming" parties also appear to on the increase... What...
...years, countries around the world have shared new flu strains with the WHO, to help scientists track genetic changes in the fast-mutating virus. The WHO uses that information to create a seed strain to drug companies, at no cost, which then manufacture and sell commercial flu vaccines. That process continued with avian flu until late last year, when Indonesia-the country that has suffered the most bird-flu deaths-suddenly stopped sharing virus samples and instead signed an agreement with the U.S. drug company Baxter to provide virus strains in exchange for help in eventually producing its own vaccine...
...Minister Siti Fadilah Supari called the current distribution system "more dangerous than the threat of an H5N1 pandemic itself." On March 27 the two sides reached a temporary compromise: Indonesia would resume sharing virus samples with the WHO, but for now that access wouldn't be extended to the drug industry. That means scientists can once again track the virus as it mutates, but companies can't use it to make a vaccine without Indonesia's permission. Further negotiations will be needed, but for now, Indonesia's intransigence has made the rest of us take notice of essential global health...
...Possible objections include the perennial doubt about whether what we're seeing in these types of studies is illness pathology or an effect of drug treatment. And is there a chance that sufferers of straight (unipolar) depression might show the same processing irregularities as bipolar patients? Which would be the death knell of a test purported to separate the two. Malhi and Lagopoulos doubt this would be the case - the two types of depression are quite different, they say-but Malhi adds: "No study has directly compared the two groups... and this would be the ideal experiment." For Malhi...