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Antidepressants' risk of suicide now called lowBy Scott Allen, Globe Staff|January 1, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration warning two years ago seemed like a cruel irony: Antidepressants might make certain patients suicidal, the last thing anyone would expect from drugs so widely accepted as an antidote to the misery of depression.
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Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts But now, a large-scale, federally funded study suggests that the suicide fears may be largely unfounded. The study of 65,000 adults, adolescents, and children being treated for depression found that suicides were extremely rare and the number of serious attempts immediately dropped by more than 50 percent compared with the month before patients began taking antidepressants.
The bigger worry, said the authors of the suicide study published in today's American Journal of Psychiatry, is that antidepressants don't significantly help most people who have chronic depression. A separate major report in today's issue of the journal found that antidepressants brought complete relief to about 30 percent of patients who have recurrent bouts of depression -- and half saw no improvement at all.
''Keeping a close watch on patients after they begin taking these drugs is a good idea, although not because these medicines are especially risky or dangerous," said Dr. Greg Simon, a psychiatrist at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle and lead author of the suicide study. ''The real problem with antidepressants is that they don't work right away, they have side effects, and . . . unfortunately, doing miserably is common."
Simon's findings -- along with the long-awaited results on the drugs' effectiveness -- are likely to reshape the debate over antidepressants, the fifth-most popular medications in the country, with 122 million prescriptions written in the last 12 months. One in 16 Americans experience a major depression each year, causing about $31 billion a year in lost productivity from lost work time, and drugs such as Prozac, known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, have been the drug of choice to treat the epidemic.
But antidepressants have been under a cloud since March 2004, when the FDA cautioned that they may trigger agitation, anxiety, and hostility in some patients, possibly leading to suicide attempts, especially among people under 18. Since the FDA warning, antidepressant prescriptions have dropped 20 percent among adolescents. In July, the FDA announced it would conduct a new review of increased suicidal behavior in adults.
The Group Health study, which reviewed computer records for patients in a Washington state managed care plan, suggests the focus on suicidal behavior is overblown. Among 65,000 patients treated from 1992 to 2003, the researchers identified 76 suicide attempts requiring hospitalization in the six months after they went on antidepressants, including 31 that were successful. They found virtually the same number of suicide attempts -- 73 -- in the three months prior to treatment, which is half that time. That translates to a rate that is twice as high. And that doesn't count depressed people who committed suicide before ever taking antidepressants.
The pattern was the same among the 5,107 people under age 18 in the study: The number of serious suicide attempts dropped precipitously after they began taking antidepressants from 14 in the month before treatment to five in the month after. However, adolescents as a group are about four times likelier to attempt suicide than people over 18.
Further, Simon said, there is no evidence to support a widely held assumption among psychiatrists that patients can temporarily become more suicidal during the first few weeks they take antidepressants while their bodies get acclimated. He called that ''an urban myth" that fails to consider that depressed people are at an even higher risk of suicide when they get no help at all. Some studies have estimated that 15 percent or more of chronically depressed people ultimately die by suicide.
Dr. Robert Temple, medical policy director at the FDA, said the Group Health Cooperative results don't contradict what his agency has been saying about the potential risk of antidepressants. The FDA issued its warning based on 25 studies of 4,000 children that showed 109 experienced suicide-related behaviors such as self-cutting or making plans to commit suicide after taking the pills. However, none of the children killed themselves.
Temple said it could be that antidepressants trigger suicidal feelings in some patients, while not making them any likelier to actually follow through on a serious suicide attempt. In fact, he stressed that no study has documented an increase in suicides among people on antidepressants.
Still, Temple said, close monitoring of patients after they begin taking antidepressants makes sense, especially among adolescents who are more prone to suicidal behavior. He also noted that up to now, no clinical study has proven that antidepressants work in people under 18.
The second depression study in today's Journal of Psychiatry -- the first results from a six-year, $35 million, federally funded project -- tested the effectiveness of antidepressants far more rigorously than the studies drug companies carried out to get FDA approval.
Company-funded trials typically focus on short-term relief for people whose depression is not chronic or complicated, but the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression study -- known as STAR*D -- looked for full remission among people who had experienced an average of six bouts of major depression. Rather than treating these patients at a central location, the STAR*D researchers monitored patients at 41 clinics and doctors' offices across the country. The six-year study also was cited by the journal.
The researchers found that about 30 percent of these 2,876 chronically depressed people achieved full relief from symptoms after up to 14 weeks of taking Celexa, chosen as a typical antidepressant because it causes fewer side effects when people stop taking it. Another 10 to 15 percent of the patients got some relief, but everyone else -- more than 50 percent of the people in the trial -- saw no relief from depression at all.
Nonetheless, the researchers were encouraged at the success rate, noting that it matched the drug companies' success rates, which typically range from 25 to 40 percent, while working with tougher patients. Dr. Madhukar H. Trivedi of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, lead author of the STAR*D study, said doctors were able to boost the effectiveness of antidepressants by closely monitoring patients' response and adjusting the dose accordingly. The 30 percent remission rate, he said, ''is as good or a little better than we expected."
The STAR*D researchers also discovered that people who were well-educated, employed, married, white, female, or relatively healthy tended to get more benefit than average from taking Celexa. On the other hand, people with other medical problems or psychiatric disorders tended to get less benefit from the drug. For instance, 17 percent of people who also experienced hypochondria got relief from their depression from taking the drug.
''The real goal of STAR*D is how best to help the 70 percent of patients for whom treatment with a representative is not enough for remission," said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which paid for the STAR*D study. In the months to come, he said that additional studies will show how these patients fared when they were given other drugs or psychological counseling.
Scott Allen can be reached at allen@globe.com.
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CHARLIE Z. SONG. 布什督促美国人学外语 汉语等成战略安全语言
2006年01月07日 07:08 新京报
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拨1.14亿美元推广外语，阿拉伯语和汉语成为战略安全语言
本报综合报道 美国总统布什5日宣布一项计划，准备在国内大规模推广外语教学，并称这是出于反恐和传播“自由”、“民主”的战略考虑。他希望能在2007财政年度的拨款中调出1.14亿美元用于这一项目的启动。
据《纽约时报》报道，该项计划覆盖广泛：从在幼儿园教授外语课，到加强大学的外语教育；政府部门还将吸收一批语言学家，达到在需要的时候能够为国防部、国务院、情报部门等机构提供足够外语人才的目的。
该项计划的重点并非美国人时下最热衷的欧洲语言和拉美语言，而是被美国政府视为对战略安全起到重要作用的阿拉伯语、汉语、俄语、北印度语、波斯语等。精通俄语的美国国务卿赖斯也表示，美国应当像冷战时学习俄语和东欧语言一样，学习阿拉伯语等重要外语。
《纽约时报》分析说，尽管美国人的外语一直都不好，但伊拉克和阿富汗战争则将问题变得更紧迫。美国发现没有足够的外交官、情报分析员能懂当地语言；此外，对外国文化的不理解也大大损坏了美国的海外形象。
《纽约时报》称，在布什看来，学习外语是“对别的文化”的友好表示，也能提高美国传播“民主”的能力。布什说：“只有能和他们对话，你才能说服他们。”
美国的资深教育学家对布什的计划表示欢迎，因为这将帮助解决语言学家短缺的问题，但是他们同时指出，1亿美元的拨款太少，还不足够带来实质性影响。此外，一些大学的管理层也表示，他们更希望通过放松对外国学生的签证限制来加强与别国的联系。（谢来）
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BEIJING (AFP) - Harbin's popular annual ice festival has opened with an official declaring it free of the toxic chemicals that polluted the northern Chinese city's water supplies late last year.
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"I can guarantee that the ice and snow we have used for the festival is safe and clean," Du Yuxin, the Communist Party's secretary in Harbin, said in comments published in the China Daily.
Du said ice for the sculptures had been extracted from a tributary of the Songhua River that had not been affected by the toxic spill, which forced the city's water supplies to be cut for five days in November.
"I believe there is nothing to worry about and no need for visitors from both home and abroad to eliminate Harbin from their touring schedule," he said.
The ice festival, which opened Thursday, is one of the few tourism drawcards for Harbin, an otherwise bleak industrial city of nine million people where temperatures drop below 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit) during winter.
Tens of thousands of visitors from around the country and the world travel to Harbin for the month-long event, which is famous for its dazzling array of ice sculptures.
World historical monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall and Egyptian pyramids are replicated in ice at the festival. With China celebrating the "Year of Russia" in 2006, Russian landmarks are also being featured.
Harbin was the biggest city to be affected by the slick of toxic benzene and nitrobenzene that was released into the Songhua river following a blast on November 13 at a PetroChina chemical factory.
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Privacy Policy -Terms of Service - Copyright/IP Policy - Ad Feedback How to explain your depression to others.
Depression can seem obvious to you. However, other people: family, friends, significant others, they will not understand it as clearly as you see it. You need to be able to tell them what you are going through in layman’s terms. You need to make sure that you can convey to them that what you are experiencing is real, not imagined, and can be fixed. But most importantly, when talking to your family, you need to make sure that they understand that it is not their fault, what you are going through is not caused by your family. Even if it is a lie, you do not want to cause trouble when discussing your condition.
Start by explaining that depression is not strictly suicidal tendencies. There are other things involved in depression, and you may not be suicidal at all. You want to make sure that you are able to communicate the feelings that you have, that you feel sad but there is no specific cause; that you are tired even after you get a full night’s sleep. The issues are not so simple that they can be dismissed with basic cures.
It is probably best, though, to avoid saying that you have a problem with your brain chemistry. Since it is too hard to truly explain what that means, you are better off leaving any topics about your internal workings for smaller discussions separate from this time. Focus more on your feelings, on how you are working to get better, and stressing what makes you uncomfortable. That will help you to clarify it for yourself as well as for your supporters. 2006年01月27日15:01
旧钞也能封利是？
为了迎接本周末开始的中国农历新年，香港金融管理局总裁提出了一项非比寻常的建议：辞新迎旧。
为了庆祝这个一年中最重要的节日，中国人都会沿袭给亲朋好友派送新钞的习俗。将钞票装入一个小小的红色封套，送给各位亲朋好友，象征著来年的兴旺和健康。广东话称之为“利是”。
依照传统，利是不能是旧钞。但就在这个月，香港金融管理局总裁任志刚(Joseph Yam)向广大市民发出呼吁，派发利是时能够多为环保考虑：改掉用新钞的习惯，将经过整理的“虽旧仍新”的纸币送给亲朋好友。
任志刚表示，虽然人们派发的利是数额不大，不过香港当局还是为此花费不菲，也伤透了脑筋。香港每年需要印制价值约30亿美元的3亿张新钞，大多数都被690万香港市民用来在农历新年派发利是了。
汇丰控股有限公司(HSBC Holdings PLC)、渣打银行( Standard Chartered PLC)和中国银行(Bank of China)这三家发钞银行也必须聘用保安公司至少分500次护送新钞到分行。
在春节前数周，市民们已经开始早早地在各个分行门口排队等待换新钞了。还不到中午，新钞已经一抢而空。银行的新钞供应不足也许是有意为之，为了防止银行内过于拥挤，让人感觉“银行好像出了什么事”，渣打银行亚太区投资者关系主管顾韵婵(Betty Ku)说。
香港金管局表示，改用旧钞每年至少可以为纳税人节约1,500万美元，还可以节约用纸。
任志刚在香港金管局的网站上发表了自己的意见，“为了环保，我希望大家能逐渐改变只用新钞封利是的习惯，接受‘虽旧仍新’的纸币。”
任志刚的此番表态是对社会习俗的挑战。28岁的香港市民Candice Liu说，送旧钞显得没有诚意，好像是在偶遇朋友而没有准备的情况下才这么做。
她说，“旧钞也许意味著这是匆忙准备的利是。”她自己倒不在意收到的是新钞还是旧钞，只要是法定货币就没问题。她收到的最糟糕的利是是朋友送给她的，里面只有一张麦当劳(McDonald's)的优惠券。
有些人对任志刚忽视传统的言论很不满。上年纪的香港市民更是认为新钞是过年不可或缺的一部分。
已经退休的58岁市民Cheung Ming Fai说，“这是中国文化。”他没能在中国银行的分行换到新钞，因为来得太晚了。和那天前来换钞的其他客户一样，他被银行工作人员告知新钞发完了，不过旧钞还有。
65岁的Ronny Cheung已经是第三次前往附近的汇丰银行了。前两次，他都没有换到新钞。这次，在银行营业前两个小时，他就已经和附近的一些老人们坐在门口等了。他准备将1.3万多港元（合1,700美元）都换成全新的10港元和20港元面值的钞票。
虽然西方文化中通常将送钱看作是一种粗俗无礼的行为，但在中国这个传统却源远流长。在春节，老年人将利是派发给年幼的儿孙，而已婚夫妇则会为他们的单身朋友送利是。香港金管局高级主管Michael Lau说，香港每年的流通货币供应量总额约190亿美元，一俟春节过后流通货币都会迅速减少，因为人们会将得到的利是存入银行。
任志刚拒绝接受采访。
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馒头最高 留学美国签证形势利好 可持续到明年
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万维读者网 2006-07-26 16:16:28
据无忧雅思网报道，美国驻华总领事莫韩日前在新闻发布会上说：今年五月美国使领馆向中国学生发放的留学签证比去年同期递增了百分之五十二，百分之八十二的中国学生申请到了不同程度的美国大学奖学金；美国大学及美国政府将会对符合条件的中国学生赴美留学签证持开放性的态度，今年获取签证的中国学生人数将会创下历史新高。
从今年六月二十日起，美国驻华使领馆依据中美政府新达成的有关协议，将向符合条件的中国留学生发放十二个月的多次往返签证；而在此之前，中国学生只能获得六个月的两次往返签证。
美国留学市场经过几年的波动，从去年开始全面复苏，共有二万五千六百余名中国学生在去年获得了留美签证。这种利好的形势一直延续到现在，而且多种积极因素所形成的合力，可以预计美国留学签证的良好态势至少可延续到明年。
中美之间的教育与文化的交流符合两国的利益，每年来华留学的人数达十万人以上，其中以韩国、日本、美国的留学生为主，中美两国政府以对等的原则制定了新的留学签证政策，同时方便了中美两国的留学生。中国留美学生的利益进一步得到了中国政府的维护。
美国、英国、澳大利亚三个国家去年共向中国留学生发放了七万余个留学签证，三国的留学人数占去年总留学人数的百分之七十以上。美国驻华总领事莫韩先生表态，美国不怕竞争，美国拥有更多更好的大学，从去年开始美国驻华使领馆强化了中国学生的签证申请服务，也简化了签证服务程序，对符合条件的中国留学生没有配额限制，签证通过率和去年基本一致。
目前，相当多的美国大学加大了校园内的基础设施建设的投资，兴建了更多的学生宿舍、教学楼、实验室等等。为扩大明年的海外留学市场的发展，美国大学做了充分的准备。美国大学的投资与利益将会促使美国政府继续保持开放性的留美签证政策。
另外，一般来讲美国政府的政策会有一定的持续性，从这一点上可以说明，在布什总统未来三年的任期内，开放性的留学签证政策不会有太大变化。
获取美国签证的核心在于符合条件，但什么是符合条件，怎么做才能符合条件，莫韩先生没有明说。能够获取美国签证的中国学生要有价值还要符合美国的利益。随着越来越多的中国学生选择留学美国，未来的签证通过率将不会高于现在。估计会有小幅的下跌，但不会差到哪去。 MIT王教授: 华人在金融研究领域做得最好的人
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万维读者网 2006-07-28 01:22:59
王江被称为是华人在金融研究领域做得最好的人，五年之内，完成了从一个物理学博士到金融学博士的转变，八年之内，他由助教成为麻省理工大学斯隆管理学院的终身教授。
据北京科技网报道，三年前，美国麻省理工大学（MIT）斯隆管理学院金融学教授、美国国家经济研究局研究员王江开始在上海国家会计学院教授一门EMBA课程----—《金融学原理》，每次课程，他都要用去整整四天的时间。他的讲义，是厚厚的一大本，随着课程的开展，很多有价值的中国案例逐渐被加入到讲义中去。
一整个上午的课程结束，王江背着一个双肩书包从教室里走出来，他谦逊温和，和一个普通的EMBA学员没什么两样。
午餐和休息的时间一共只有1个半小时。从EMBA的教室到食堂，有3分钟左右的路程，王江熟稔地穿过几栋建筑物中间的小路，大步向食堂走去。
比起三年前他第一次到国家会计学院教授这门课时，上海的天气要热了许多。瘦高的王江走进食堂时，已经开始流汗。正是用餐的高峰，餐厅里的空余座位稀少，和学员一样排着队拿好食物后，他端着餐盘，转了半天，才找到一个靠窗的位置坐下，这里光线直射，似乎比窗外还热一些，但这些似乎根本不会影响他的选择。
听到自己被评价为“华人在金融研究领域做得最好的人”，他微笑了一下，摇了摇头，好像在说一件别人的事情，“没那回事儿。”
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是什么让王江有这段传奇的经历？为什么他有如此的智慧能够脱颖而出？据说有一系列的偶然和机遇让他走上了金融学研究之路。但对这些偶然和机遇，王江的解释也相当简单：只是因为看到金融学的学生使用的数理分析方法恰恰是物理学使用的而已。事实上，从物理学到金融学的路上，完成一个漂亮转身的不止王江一人。 1990年代，斯坦福大学毕业的几个华人金融学博士，都是物理学博士出身，然后又攻读金融博士，他们的名字也是今天在金融学界耳熟能详的----—黄明、刘俊、潘军、戴强。
而王江的转身，要比他们来得都早一些。1985年，刚刚通过物理学博士答辩的王江，决定转系学习金融学，“那时候已经知道自己通过了答辩。”对那一段新的选择和变化，王江轻描淡写，无意多谈，却有文章用一句话记载了他彼时的传奇----—物理学的博士资格考试，王江是第一名。
此后，究竟经过怎样的努力获得了惊人的成就仍然由于他拒绝谈论自己而成了一个谜。从樊纲为曼昆《经济学原理》中文版写的序里，我们可以窥见，曼昆第一次在哈佛给研究生讲“宏观经济学”理论必修课时，王江与樊纲以及现在从美国回到清华大学做教授的李稻葵，都在那个班上。
而另外一个未经证实的信息是，公认的超级天才、投资基金Hedge Fund创始人Sandy Grossman是王江的老师。
天时地利人和，他在金融学研究的道路上大步疾走。
传道授业
“你知道，在美国很少有学生留在本校任教，于是我就开始投递简历找工作，最后就到了MIT。”对进入MIT的经历他依旧是轻描淡写。
尽管一直在交谈中对谈论自己保持着惯有的低调，但只要是谈到研究和课程，王江的活力会突然之间迸发出来。
1990年代初，王江开始了他的开创性研究----—将信息不对称问题引入市场交易量的研究中。这一成果成文为《竞争性股票交易量的一个模型》，发表于 1994年的《政治经济学期刊》上。他关注的是，在信息不对称的情况下，如何为股票和其他金融资产定价。个股的动态交易量与股票收益率之间的关系也是他研究的内容之一。
他的开创性的研究成果显著，他发表的论文数量不多但篇篇都是重量级的。同时他也获得了众多的奖项，其中包括两次国家自然科学基金大奖。1996年，复旦大学、清华大学、中山大学建立国际MBA合作项目，MIT直接参与到这些项目中。1998年，王江以MIT教授的身份首次回国讲学。
“第一次讲课是在复旦大学和清华大学，有1－2天的时间讲。”王江回忆说。
2002年7月，王江被邀请担任清华大学中国金融研究中心首任主任。这是一个实体的研究机构，云集了国内外高水平研究员和访问学者。
王江一一细数中心的工作任务，包括推动国内的金融研究与国际接轨、促进中国与国际的金融研究方面的交流以及金融人才的培养等等，王江亲自组织并参与定期举办的国际化程度相当高的中国金融国际年会和金融前沿系列讲座等学术活动中去。不难看出，他对中心倾注了大量的心血。
一个显著的王氏特征是，他很少在媒体上露面，也很少针对目前的市场现状发表自己的观点，王江的专长，似乎更多的体现在教学----—“传道授业解惑”上。
王江的“传道授业解惑”还包括撰写教材。在MIT，王江讲授的课程有一门是《金融经济学》，这门课程他在国内也讲授过几次，对比起来，他了解到国内在这方面的研究现状以及博士研究生的教学所需，以中国经济现象为主要释例，他写作了《金融经济学》教材。
“教学是我在国内工作的重要部分，对于市场的研究也是我所关注的。”王江用他一贯的严谨态度强调说，“观点我希望能在研究的基础上来谈。”
王江
教授，金融学家，美国顶尖商学院中屈指可数的中国教授之一，金融市场微结构研究领域的著名学者。
1981年毕业于南京大学物理系，1985年获宾夕法尼亚大学物理学博士学位，1990年从宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院获金融学博士学位。毕业后进入麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院金融系任教。现为斯隆管理学院金融学教授。
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