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The Society for Research in Child Development found that 40 percent of children who have returned to school suffer such psychological problems as sadness, clinginess, difficulty concentrating, irritability and risk-taking behavior.

A nurse I spoke with later, Diane Graham, who has been treating patients in New Orleans since 1978, said there are thousands of people like Mr. [Joe Gendusa]. Many of them have sunk into clinical depression or worse, and yet the city lacks the services to handle their psychiatric needs. 'The ER is always full,' she said, 'and we never have the staff to take care of them.'

The premise: In this fourth attempt at putting Jack Finney's classic 'The Body Snatchers' to the screen, there is a new twist. This time, instead of plant-like pods, it's an alien virus-like particle attached to the wreckage of the NASA Shuttle Patriot, and it begins to spread rapidly through the human population. The virus (in the jargon of the movie) interferes with sweat, causes a 'cellular condensation,' a 'metabolic reaction' and alters the body's 'genetic expression' by the 'integration of alien DNA' -- while turning everyone into emotionless robots. REMAKE: Nicole Kidman stars in 'The Invasion,' in which a virus alters the body's 'genetic expression' and turns people into emotionless robots.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Warner Bros. Pictures

El Cantante [Motion Picture] -- [Hector Lavoe] doesn't go to drug rehab, and he is not compliant with his antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication regimen. In 1985, he is diagnosed with HIV -- a time when AZT and other AIDS drugs were not yet available -- but his physician tells him he may not develop AIDS for several years or at all. Ultimately, Lavoe develops AIDS and dies of its complications in 1993. The medical questions: How common was HIV among intravenous-drug abusers in the 1980s? Were there any AIDS drugs available in 1985? How frequently do untreated HIV cases progress to full-blown AIDS (with immunodeficiency and opportunistic infections)? What were the most frequent opportunistic infections affecting AIDS patients in the 1980s and '90s?

The surgery didn't go well, and in the recovery room, as the man's heart ballooned from damage and his lungs continued to fill with fluid, the staff was ready to give up. At which point I erupted in favor of toughing it out, this time directing my blunt insistence not at the patient but at the team working on him. Fortunately, we carried on, and the man's heart began to slowly recover. I had learned from [Jeff Siegel] that there was little to be gained by yelling at a patient, but I learned for myself there was much to be gained from channeling my strong, stubborn emotions into not giving up. As he recovered, the patient began to see the benefits of my stubbornness on his behalf and grew to like me for it. Of course, he knew that he also owed his life to Jeff's very different intervention. He had strong relationships with both of us, which I am certain helped him get well faster

The author discussed the Chris Benoit case on cable television news, along with other talking heads including lawyers, doctors and wrestlers. He talked about the potential role anabolic (manmade) steroids may have played in worsening Benoit's irritability, anger and possibly even provoking the psychosis that led to Benoit murdering his wife and child and killing himself. But one thing that hasn't been emphasized enough -- steroids themselves aren't bad drugs. In fact, they have important indications in patients with true adrenal or pituitary deficiencies

The premise: Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) is lying on her deathbed at home, attended by her daughters. Wracked with pain, she appears to be dying of some kind of cancer and is receiving intravenous narcotics. Ann begins to talk about events of 50 years earlier, reliving the untimely death of her former beau Buddy at the wedding of his sister, as she, Ann, jilts Buddy and spends the night with his best friend, Dr. Harris Arden. For the rest of her life, she has blamed herself for Buddy's death and, in a feverish state on her deathbed, relives that fateful night. The nurse in attendance tells her daughters that the characters Ann is talking to and about 'might be real people and they might not' -- she seems to doubt that the memories are real. Indeed, Ann is frequently confused and delirious as death approaches and, among other things, hallucinates that she is visited by Dr. Arden wearing a stethoscope and that her night nurse is in a formal gown

By most useful definitions, I am an insomniac. Like Alan Berliner, director and star of HBO's provocative new documentary Wide Awak e, I, too, do most of my best work in the middle of the night, and I, too, risk my wife's wrath when I am subsequently not available in the early morning to respond to our infant's pleading cries

'Golden Door,' originally called 'Nuovomondo,' a film directed by Emanuele Crialese (in English and Italian, with English subtitles), arrived in U.S. theaters in June. The premise: At the turn of the 20th century, Salvatore Mancuso (Vincenzo Amato) immigrates to the U.S. accompanied by his mother and his two young sons, one of whom is a deaf mute. Crossing the Atlantic, the boat encounters rough waters and several passengers are injured; some die. Landing at Ellis Island, prospective immigrants undergo a series of medical and psychological tests, including puzzle solving, and a brief medical examination in which their hair and eyes are inspected and they're screened for hernias, genital lesions and a cough. The physicians seem concerned about mental deficiencies, not wanting the mentally infirm and those with low intelligence to 'mix with our citizens,' and they place a chalk 'X' on Mancuso's mother's jacket for not clearly stating the current date. The authorities consider deporting her back to Italy along with her deaf-mute grandson

Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are a class of drugs which improve insulin receptor sensitivity and reverse the insulin resistance typically seen in type 2 diabetes. Since most type 2 diabetics have too few receptors per body surface area, the TZDs are very useful drugs. The fact that patients on the remaining two TZDs (Avandia and Actos) can gain weight on these drugs is not news. To give just one example as it relates to TZDs, it is clear that controlling blood sugar is important in preventing diabetic end organ damage