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Biotech / Medical : Sepracor-Looks very promising
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To: LLCF who wrote (4248)3/7/2000 8:46:00 PM
From: A.J. Mullen  Read Replies (1) of 10280
 
With respect to asthma, in the UK the increase in incidence has been attributed in part to central heating. The dust mite warmth and and low humidity. Central heating that has been installed in the last 30-40 years has led to a boom in mites and their faeces, and thus asthma. Doubt that this works well as an explanation for the US. Warm houses are not considered a recent innovation here.

The Ritalin seems to me to be very disturbing. It seems as if we have come full-circle from the sixties: "the patient isn't ill - society is." Now, all behavior that we label as problematical is deemed to have a physiological cause. It's odd that some parents who seem unwilling to speak harshly to their child will 'discipline' the child with drugs.

Come to think of it, some suggest asthma may have a psycological element: an unconcious cry for attention. Perhaps more kids want attention now than then.
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