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Depression can strike at any time. It’s Very common and it affects people of every color, race, economic status, or age. Depression is thought to be caused by an imbalance of brain chemicals, along with other factors and like any other medical condition it needs to be treated. The term antidepressant refers to a drug that helps to rectify specific biological abnormalities that give rise to the symptoms of depression. But what if that is not the case?
According to a study, which analyzed 47 clinical trials, at Hull university some of the best selling anti-depressants like Prozac, Seroxant, Serzone and Efexor are barely more effective than placebos in treating most people with severe depression.
“The difference in improvement between patients taking placebos and patients taking anti-depressants is not very great,” said Professor Irving Kirsch of Hull University, in northern England, who led the team.
“This means that depressed people can improve without chemical treatments.
“Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients unless alternative treatments have failed to provide a benefit.”
But drug companies strongly questioned their findings: “Their conclusions are at odds with what has been seen in actual clinical practice,” a spokesman said. “It is widely recognized by experts in the field that studies in depression are challenging and very difficult to conduct.”
This research, breaks new ground by incorporating data not previously released by drug companies.
Doctor Tim Kendall, deputy director of Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists research unit, said the study was “fantastically important.”
“I think it’s too dangerous to allow drug companies, where profit is a key factor, to be able to withhold data which shows that a drug is ineffective or harmful,” he said and added: “Three of these drugs are some of the most commonly used antidepressants. It’s not mandatory for drug companies to publish all this research. I think it should be.”
Alison Cobb, of British mental health charity Mind, hailed the findings as “a serious challenge to the predominance of drugs in treating depression.”
“Anti-depressants do help many people but by no means all and some people experience severe side-effects with them,” she said.
Another mental health charity, Sane, warned the findings “could remove what has been seen as a vital choice for thousands,” adding people should not stop taking their drugs immediately.
“Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts” ~ Penelope Sweet

Microchip implants are being used to monitor children, convicts, pets, Alzheimer’s patients, and others. Back in 2002 several volunteers had a radio frequency identification (RFID) “VeriChips” inserted under the skin of their arms.

American companies are reportedly working on developing a GPS-enabled chip to track individuals, which could potentially locate a person’s position, speed and direction.

A 37-year-old mother said a “human chip” is the only answer to keep track of her 15-year-old daughter, who has often skipped school without her school noticing. Her daughter and three friends were left dangling in mid-air in after one of them drove a friends car up a stay wire of an electricity pole. They had to climb out of the car while it balanced on the wire.
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Speeding is a factor in at least one-third of all motor vehicle fatalities. Some of us are speeding because we are late or in a hurry, some because their extremely loud music makes them, some for the thrill of the moment. Truth to be told there is no good reason for speeding. Filming yourself speeding and risking your own or someone else’s life is just beyond the world’s, common sense.

An English court has freed Danny Hyde, a teenager who drove up to speeds of 210kmh in his car while filming himself with his mobile phone.
He proudly posted the video on You Tube under the name: ‘Danny’s Badboy Astraaa’ but anonymous e-mail in the inbox of Suffolk Police last autumn got him to the face of justice.
After police managed to identify him, he admitted the offence. This earned him a four-month suspended prison term and 210 hours of community service with drivers licence suspension of 18 months. Read the rest of this entry »

For many Germans, New Years eve provided one last chance for a parting kiss with their beloved cigarettes. With a partial ban on smoking in restaurants and bars there aren’t many places you can actually light a cigarette these days in Germany.
Apparently even smoking at home can be rather dangerous. At least it was for this Bielefeld women.
She lit up a cigarette in the apartment she shares with her 42-year-old boyfriend. Her denial of his request not to smoke made him totally crazy over the whole thing. He began cursing and screaming at her, and than, he grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed the whole apartment with it.
The 6-kilogram extinguisher was completely empty after the operation and almost everything in the apartment damaged as a result.
“He just sprayed it all over the flat,” police spokesman Michael Waldhecker said. “With that kind of a fire extinguisher, it looks like it just snowed in the apartment. It’s hellish to clean up.”
“He managed to put the cigarette out though.”
The police took him to the station to calm down since he continued to curse and scream at her in front of them.
“We didn’t want the situation to escalate,” Waldhecker said.
“It’s unlikely the man will be charged with anything. It was his apartment and his fire extinguisher. And, the girlfriend was unharmed in the attack.”
On their way to the station he said that he wasn’t bothered by the damage he caused and that he might have to break up with his girlfriend if she refuses to quit smoking.

If he really wanted just to break up with her, wasn’t it easier to say ‘I’m breaking up with you?’

A 51-year-old Georgia man, and an ex elementary school teacher, Jerry Norman Jones, is considered a fugitive after violating conditions of his bond.

Reportedly he fled with his 4-year-old daughter Madison Kerr of whom he doesn’t have legal custody while visiting her Friday morning. She was wearing blue jeans, a red long-sleeved shirt with hearts and a red ribbon belt at the time.

Last December he was arrested on four counts of child molestation on allegations of groping and touching of three 9-year-old girls and an 8-year-old girl on December 7th and December 10th.
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I have to admit this Funny News reminded me of all those Funny cartoons with false teeth falling out of someones mouth. So here’s today’s Breaking News.

David Packer, from Manchester lost his dental plate last January, when he stopped for a candy bar while climbing the Haystacks.

David told the MEN: “It was an awful day with the rain absolutely sheeting down. When I go walking I normally stick some chocolate, some coffee and some brandy in my rucksack, and we were quite close to the top when we decided to shelter behind a boulder and have the brandy and the Mars bar. Cold Mars bars are very hard to chew so I took my teeth out and put in my pocket.”

Twenty minutes later he realized they were gone, but after not being able to find them, he returned to Swinton toothless.

Now over a year later he has been reunited with his false teeth thanks to Alan Mardsen, who found them last month.
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Reading Weird News like these, you can’t help but wonder: “what were they thinking?” In today’s Breaking News police officers let a drunk driver two times, before finally arresting her. All this, in just 5 hours.

During a random police test on William street at about 6.10a.m. 23-year-old women was caught driving drunk at more than three times the legal limit. She recorded a positive alcohol reading of 0,15%.

Strangely enough, they let her go only to see her driving about an hour later on the same street with, of course a positive alcohol reading over 0,05%.
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Call it Funny News, Weird News or just plane luck, the couple in today’s Breaking News is $100,000 richer after a total stranger approached them with a blank check in their name. Enjoy…

There were about 20 people in Doctor Salami’s when a man walked in and bought everyone a round of drinks giving the waitress a $100 dollar tip.

She said: “He is just a nice guy. You never know who is sitting next to you. You never know when you can make a difference to someone else’s life.”

But that wasn’t all. He stopped by a young couple’s table and asked if they had any children. When they told him they have a 2-year-old he gave them a blank check and said: “Write any amount you like - I’m good for it.”
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This Super Grandma deserved her place in Breaking News. Most of us think that old people are easy target for robbers because of that age but this little old lady proved us wrong big time. Here’s some Funny News…

80-year-old woman was attacked by an 18-year-old who tried to take her purse away from her.

In the struggle the attacker lost his gun. She managed to grab it and point it at the attacker demanding her purse back, but the attacker fled.

He was caught soon after thanks to a witness to the incident who pointed police to an apartment.
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I always thought cops should chase the bad guys not the other way around. According to these Funny News I was wrong. Here’s Breaking News for today.

Two part-time Police Community Support Officers were making a routine visit to a children’s center when the boy started arguing with a staff member.

He became more aggressive when the officers arrived. Confronted by him they locked them selves and called for help.

Conservative MP for West Devon, Geoffrey Cox said: “These officers cannot fill the shoes of a policeman.”

“But they will always be of extremely limited value in dealing with serious incidents, even run of the mill incidents like this. This illustrates their limited value.”
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