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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

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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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.< !-google_ad_section_end->

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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< !-google_ad_section_start->Ok, this is Weird News. In today’s Breaking News doctor sends a pregnant woman home saying her labor is false.< !-google_ad_section_end->

25-year-old Charryse Brooks went to the hospital around 2a.m. this Sunday he thought she might be in the early stages of labor.

Apparently she wasn’t due until Feb. 22. so hospital workers told her she was experiencing false labor and sent her home. She tried to sleep, but the pain increased and her contractions got stronger.

After some time she insisted that she had to return to the hospital but it was to late. She was in so much pain she couldn’t get the door open once she got to the car.
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< !-google_ad_section_start->After a lot of thinking I’ve decided to place these under Weird News category although it probably belongs to Funny News. You have to admit a plane full of naked people is kind of funny. Either way here’s Breaking News for today.< !-google_ad_section_end->

Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de is taking bookings for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5.

The Price? Only 499 Euros or $735. “It’s expensive, I know,” managing director Enrico Hess told Reuters by phone. “It’s because the plane’s very small. There’s no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other.”

“I wish I could say we thought of it ourselves but the idea came from a customer,” Hess said. “It’s an unusual gap in the market.”

The 55 passengers have to remain fully clothed until they board the plane, and dress before disembarking. The crew will of course remain clothed for safety reasons.
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As I was going through some weird news i found this and it just blew me away. What is happening with the world these days. It’s one sick crazy idea after another.
Before the coach arrives at its destination the dwarves take their loot back into their suitcase, zip themselves inside and wait to be collected by their partners in crime.

One of their the favorite companies is Swebus, which takes thousands of British tourists on holiday across the country. Their spokesman said: “We have had reports about several thefts by dwarves on the stretch between Vasteras and Stockholm.
“We’re thinking of installing video cameras.”
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When I read this cool story I couldn’t stop thinking about how great was this poor mans shock when he realized he was in a coffin, and the funny scared look on his nephew’s face when he saw him opening his eyes. Talk about Weird news.

Chilean media reported that 81-year-old Feliberto Carrasco woke up in his coffin at his own wake giving his relatives a scare of a life time.

When they discovered his body limp and cold they thought his hour has come and decided to call a funeral home immediately, without calling a doctor.

A funeral home was full of grieving relatives and friends gathered to bid Carrasco a final farewell. He was dressed in his fines suit lying in a coffin and he just woke up.

“I couldn’t believe it. I thought I must be mistaken and I shut my eyes,” Carrasco’s nephew Pedro told the Ultimas Noticias newspaper.
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