The frequency of use of unconventional therapy in the United States is far higher than previously reported. Medical doctors should ask about their patients' use of unconventional therapy whenever they obtain a medical history.

Early-onset psychiatric disorders probably have a variety of adverse consequences. The results presented here show that truncated educational attainment is one of them. Debate concerning whether society can afford universal insurance coverage for the treatment of mental disorders needs to take these consequences into consideration.

There is inconsistency in the literature on the relationship between age and depressive symptoms. Although a careful review shows that some of this inconsistency can be reconciled by recognizing the nonlinear relationship (Newmann, 1989), 2 additional issues remain unclear. One is that most previous studies used depression screening scales that contain somatic items that could introduce an age bias. The other is that most previous studies combined samples of men and women even though there is evidence that the sex difference in depressive symptoms varies with age. These 2 issues are addressed in this article, using analyzed data from 2 large national surveys. There is a consistent, but quite modest, nonlinear association between age, somatic, and nonsomatic depressive symptoms in both surveys. There is no significant sex difference in the age curves.

Cyromazine is used as an additive in poultry feed to inhibit the development of fly larvae in chicken manure. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) method AG-555, modified from method AG-376, has been the standard method for cyromazine analysis in poultry feed. However, these methods are time-consuming ( approximately 3 h) and require large volumes (200 mL) of solvent. This study developed an extraction procedure using the QuEChERS method that is faster ( approximately 30 min) and uses 20 times less solvent than the AG-555 method. After extraction using the QuEChERS method, the extractant was subjected to cleanup using a C-18 solid phase extraction (SPE) followed by filtering through a 0.45 microm syringe Teflon filter before the liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis. Recovery of 75.0 +/- 6.2% was achieved. The method detection limit (MDL) and the limit of quantitation (LOQ) were 0.028 and 0.094 ppm, respectively. Analyses of commercial poultry feed samples using the QuEChERS method yielded results similar to those obtained via EPA method AG-555.

There is no need for asymptomatic people with HIV infection to restrict their lives in order to avoid exposure to stressful life experiences or to develop special skills for coping with stress to forestall the progression of HIV illness.