Op-Ed Contributor: The Wrong Story About Depression
New York Times - 2 days ago
“STARTLING results,” promised the CNN teasers, building anticipation for a segment on this week’s big mental health news: led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania indicating that the antidepressants Paxil and imipramine work no better than placebos (“than sugar pills,” said CNN) for people with mild to moderate depression. Happy pills don’t work, the story quickly became, even though, boiled down to that headline, it was neither startling nor particularly true.
Few depressed Americans treated appropriately: study Reuters

The Official Word to All, Get a Swine Flu Vaccination Now
New York Times - 2 days ago
Citing mistakes made in the 1957 pandemic, federal officials on Thursday urged hesitant Americans to get vaccinated now against to prevent any possibility of another wave of illness and deaths. Joshua Matanguihan got a flu vaccination in Arlington, Va., from Shirley Gomez, left, with help from Juana De Santiago.
Easing H1N1 pandemic may let in new flu viruses Reuters

Urgent Facebook blood appeal 'saves' British student's life after Mexico fall
UK Telegraph - 2 days ago
The family of a British student, Philip Pain, launched an urgent Facebook appeal for blood donors to save his life after falling from a Mexico hotel balcony on New Year's Day. The 20 year-old Southampton University student plunged from a seventh-floor balcony while on holiday in Mazatlan.
Q&A with The Children’s Hospital Denver Post