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The NewsHour's mini-documentaries don't shy away from distressing scenes of war and misery, but the panel discussions that follow generally still the racing heart.
The book's cynicism is even more distressing, symptomatic as it is of a larger cynicism that seems to have gripped our public culture.
Febrile seizures are the most prevalent type of seizures experienced by children, affecting up to 5% of the world's population [ 1 ] . Although most febrile seizures are benign and do not require treatment, they are distressing to parents, and in a few circumstances, can increase the risk of subsequent epilepsy [ 2 ] . In clinical practice, therapy for febrile seizures presently is unsatisfactory, since clinical data are insufficient to document efficacy of most anti-epileptic drugs [ 3 ] . The most commonly used drug, phenobarbital, has significant deleterious effects on learning and behavior.
Chatterbox just caught up with a Boston Globe article containing the distressing news that Out-of-Town News, the famous Harvard Square newsstand, is losing business to the Internet.
[ 7 ] Aggressive treatment of distressing symptomatology contributes to overall quality of life and restores to the patient some of the freedom and autonomy usurped by the disease process.