BAC Rutland

A troubled, gun-wielding 23-year-old student at Virginia Tech goes on a campus rampage, killing 32 people and eventually himself. An MIT student commits suicide by ingesting cyanide, and another dies in a fire after a drug overdose.

Such highly publicized incidents underscore the sense of personal angst on today’s college campuses. But contrary to popular belief, the stress on today’s young people has nothing to do with meeting the demands of higher education.
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WASHINGTON—Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman’s heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and worsens those people’s outcomes. Monday, Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to heart disease in the first place.

The scientists tracked 63,000 women from the long-running Nurses’ Health Study between 1992 and 2004. None had signs of heart disease when the study began, but nearly 8 percent had evidence of serious depression.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be carried out with full transparency and accountability — and Recovery.gov is the centerpiece of that effort. In a short video, President Obama describes the site and talks about how you’ll be able to track the Recovery Act’s progress every step of the way.

Capt. Nathan Green remembers the alarm sounding that day last April in Baghdad’s Green Zone. He remembers running, and then the loud explosion of the rocket hitting 30 feet behind him. He was knocked unconscious, suffered a traumatic brain injury and now hears the high-pitched whine and static buzz of an AM radio. All the time.
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Whether caused by diabetes, chronic hypertension, a genetic factor or a rare disease, kidney disease, which can lead to renal failure, can have a huge impact on one’s life. Here, six men and women discuss the impact this disease has had on their life. (Join the discussion here.)

Patient advocates called on state regulators Tuesday to force health insurers to cover certain autism treatments.  Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica sent a letter to Cindy Ehnes, executive director of the state Department of Managed Health Care, and her boss, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, expressing concern about delays in resolving coverage complaints from parents of autistic children.
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Washington — Governors will be able to apply for 67 percent, or $32.5-billion, of the stabilization funds that the new stimulus law directs to the states for education programs by the end of March, the Department of Education announced over the weekend. The stabilization-fund money will be released roughly two weeks after provable applications are received.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced yesterday that nearly $44 billion in federal stimulus aid to schools will be available to states in the next 30 to 45 days — soon enough, education officials hope, to prevent hundreds of thousands of layoffs nationwide and program cuts that would hit home in schools across the Washington region.
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My Stroke of Insight is a New York Times Bestseller and is published by Viking Penguin Group. You may order a copy through online stores including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or ask your local bookstore. It is available in hardcover, audio, and large-print edition. Foreign editions are also available and published in the UK, Germany, Brazil, Holland, and France. Other translations are scheduled to be published in 2009.
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LIVINGSTON, N.J., March 4 /PRNewswire/ — Successfully building a small business and dealing with a chronic illness like MS have a lot in common: managing your fears, finding ways to turn a liability into an asset, staying motivated and positive, and reaching out to create a support system for success.
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