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May 21st, 2008 at 12:15 pm

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May 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm

The National Institute of Mental Health reports that approximately 18.8 million American adults have a depressive disorder. Depression is not discriminating, seeping into all age, race, gender, and socioeconomic groups. It stalls careers, strains relationships, and ends lives. So if the disease is so widespread, why aren’t more people discussing it?

May 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm

For three weeks beginning in late May 2001, Jane Pauley’s home was the stuff of many a New Yorker’s dreams. Lavish morning sunlight helped her cultivate beds of African violets. …

May 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said Tuesday, a challenging health diagnosis for the iconic American political figure, the last surviving of the four famed Kennedy brothers. Malignant gliomas, like Kennedy’s, are the most common type of adult brain cancers, inflicting some 9,000 Americans a year, according to NewsHour.

May 21st, 2008 at 7:16 am

Teenagers are most vulnerable for the illness of depression threatening their lives.

New York Voices:

New York Voices did a story in 2005 about treatments and problems of some NY …

May 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Wired Magazine tackled 10 Inconvenient Truths about the planet earth in a recent article titled, “Get Ready to Rethink What it Means to Be Green,” and argues that combating …

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

U.N. officials began to tour the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar on Monday, though some U.N. staffers still reported problems gaining access to the tightly controlled country. At least 78,000 …

May 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am

While America’s reputation in the Middle East is hovering at historic lows, the demand for American university-branded education has never been greater, leading a number of U.S. schools to set up shop in Qatar–and students are flocking to these branches of America’s elite colleges.

May 19th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Melody Petersen talks with Bill Moyers about her new book Our Daily Meds, and how drug companies market medication. In the book she describes an industry whose core drive is profit (over science), and one that has insinuated itself, through money, into every level of drug research.

May 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

In a presidential campaign there’s a lot of competition to raise a lot of money, and so it’s no surprise that this year’s heated election comes with a trail of …



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