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Moscow Times LOGIN Name: Password: Login FEATURE A Mystery Malady Strikes in Chechnya By Kim Murphy los angeles time SHELKOVSKAYA, Russia — It started just after the midafternoon recess.

As they lined up to return to class, Zareta Chimiyeva saw a girl in front of her collapse and begin convulsing wildly.

Only a few minutes later, Zareta was at her desk when she smelled “a bad smell,” and started feeling ill.

She rushed out of the classroom but made it only as far as the stairs.

“Darkness surrounded me, and there was darkness in my eyes, and I fell,” said the 12-year-old from this small town in eastern Chechnya.

When Zareta woke up in a hospital, it took three adults to hold her down.

She was thrashing and clutching ...

... Racial disparities in access to medicines increase after implementation of prescription surveillance Public release date: 13-Mar-2006 [ | E-mail Article ] Contact: Leah Gourley public_affairs@hms.harvard.edu 617-432-0442 Harvard Medical School Racial disparities in access to medicines increase after implementation of prescription surveillance BOSTON-Health policies designed to curb inappropriate medication prescribing can have the unintended effect of increasing racial disparities in access to appropriate care, reports a study by the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care).

The research, led by Dennis Ross-Degnan, ScD, associate professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, and Sallie-Anne Pearson, PhD, of the University of New South Wales, is reported in the March 13 Archives of Internal Medicine.

"This is the first well-controlled study to show that health policies designed to reduce drug costs and abuse can increase racial disparities in access to effective care for those with chronic illnesses, like schizophrenia," said Pearson.

The authors examined the effects of a prescription-monitoring program on access to benzodiazepines among nearly 125,000 Medicaid enrollees living in neighborhoods of different racial composition.

Benzodiazepines are widely prescribed and effective treatments when used appropriately for anxiety, panic, sleep, and seizure disorders.

They are also adjunct therapies ...

...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b, that masquerades as a physical disorder.And, it's treatable.

That's good news for anyone who's been dismissed as a hypochondriac.So the next time your date drags you to the emergency room, don't ditch him or her there.

Hold that hand.

The fun of getting to know each other is just beginning.Lawson Wulsin, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati.

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