[dodger]

Scientologists (& Islamofascists) everywhere cheer this profound tragedy.

Dr. Fenton was, by all accounts, a great human being.

[kcvl]

Many people with schizophrenia are withdrawn

Except when they are taking their meds and then sometimes that makes them paranoid. I know someone who is dealing with this disease now. They are having a very hard time. But, he/she is the most kind hearted person that you would ever want to meet. He/she finds it difficult to ride an elevator without freaking out.

[AmeriBrit]

If he was that unstable, what we're his family or keeper's thinking letting him out in public alone and able to go off the deep end, as he did, at a moment's notice.

[ClaudiusI]

You know, I wouldn't accept a leading paragraph like that in a novel, much less in a serious news piece.

[Intolerant in NJ]

... about the dangers of allowing patients with severe psychosis to go without medication...the problem is that no one wants to "allow" patients to go without medication - but many of them don't want to take that medication once out in the community and feeling more in control because of their meds - they decide to stop taking them on their own - with the continuing push for further "deinstitutionalization" of mental patients and the unfortunate trend toward fewer community resources like well-staffed crisis evaluation centers, where the young man in this story should have been seen, the problem will get worse......

[neverdem]

Echinacea cuts cold incidence (big pharma eats their shorts)

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

Birth-control patch may increase blood clot risk chat, so much for frontpage at Houston Chronicle

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[djf]

I guess anytime you start pokin around in someone's head, there are good things you might find there and dangerous things... very dangerous... as well.

It is a sad incident, though. I will never understand societies obsession/expectation with being totally safe no matter what they do. I see the car crash tests and think "Well, that's nice, but it's way better if you don't smash into something at 75 miles an hour in the first place."

[jordan8]

Pepper foam.