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EXTRA! FROM REDFLAGSDAILY.COM, AUGUST 5, 2003

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Toxic algae blooms can cause serious health effects in humans and can kill dogs

DOCTOR-ASSISTED EUTHANASIA COMMON IN EUROPE

Physicians are withholding life-prolonging treatments or prescribing drugs that

ease pain but could hasten death

SPECIAL REPORT

WORLD HUNGER NEEDS A SIMPLE SOLUTION RATHER THAN HI-TECH GM FOOD

What emerges is an automatic cultural bias in the scientific community towards

invasive, hi-tech solutions to complex social, environmental and economic

problems. Regardless of whether or not they are best — or even appropriate

HEALTH MEDIA WATCH

A PILL TO COUNTER UNCONTROLLABLE SHOPPING URGES

This is a WebMD Medical News story found at AOL.COM. It refers to a study of 24

people and how the antidepressant Celexa helped battle a shopping compulsion.

Aside from the fact that a big fuss was made by AOL and WebMd about such a pithy

study, we’re also very curious to know how " the study shows that the disorder

[shopping compulsive disorder " ] affects between 2% and 8% of the U.S.

population. " Sure, some people may go right over the bend, but can we please

have some qualification here and some social perspective? It is this kind of

health journalism that makes a mockery of science. And overall, this is yet

another example of how modern psychiatry can no longer be taken seriously, as

practically everything produced by the culture can be labeled a disorder. For

example, how about compulsive advertising syndrome? And compulsive PR syndrome?

And compulsive hype medical journalism syndrome? And compulsive

let’s-help-the-drug-industry syndrome? WebMd and AOL should be ashamed of

peddling this shopping disorder nonsense. If anyone at WebMD wants to debate

this issue publicly, please let us know.

-RFD Editor, Nicholas Regush

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