Panic fears grip millions across America
AAP feature notes millions live in fear of panic disorder. About 26 million experience attacks and avoidance behaviors, with 9 percent of Americans affected in six months. Drs Gorman and Goldstein explain learned fear and link to phobias, citing Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, Earl Campbell as examples.
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Jack Gorman
Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Alan Goldstein
Philadelphia
Temple University
Laurence Olivier
Jerilyn Ross
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Aretha Franklin
Carly Simon
Earl Campbell
Campbell
Congress
Well ness Letter health notes from UC Berkeley
University of California Berkeley Well ness Letter reports licorice can raise blood pressure and secondhand smoke causes about 50 000 deaths annually among nonsmokers. It also notes life expectancy projections for white and non white youths born in 1989, with gender disparities.
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University of California-Berkeley
University
School of Public Health
Crack cocaine dangers reassessed by Toronto user study
Harvard Mental Health Letter cites a study of 79 crack users led by Yuet Cheung in Toronto. Most subjects were single men in their 20s with some full time work, few cravings, and only a minority heavy users, challenging the stereotype of crack as an unparalleled menace.
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Toronto
Harvard Mental Health Letter
Yuet Cheung
Watson’s Bell story debunked in Cheever memoir
Susan Cheever challenges the memoir tale that Alexander Graham Bell spilled battery acid, provoking the first telephone words. She points to contemporary records showing no accident or log entry and argues Watson fabricated the event decades later for a better story.
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Susan Cheever
John Cheever
Thomas Watson
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
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Bush defines cancer and heart disease as not lifestyle
The president rejects labeling cancer and heart disease as lifestyle illnesses citing behavior. AIDS supporters staged a die in near his Maine vacation home and experts counter that smoking and inactivity link to cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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Maine
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