CNN.com - Toll grows as fires sweep Portugal - Aug 23, 2005: "(CNN) -- Two more people have died in the two dozen wildfires sweeping Portugal despite the arrival in the country of international firefighting assistance, raising the overall toll to 15, officials said.
The latest fatalities reported Tuesday included an 88-year-old woman, who fled her home near Ourem in central Portugal last Thursday trying to escape the flames.
Her charred body was found Monday, Patricia Gaspar of Portugal's National Fire Coordination Center, told CNN.
Also on Monday, a 40-year-old man who was helping to fight fires near his northern village of Vila Nova de Poiares, was killed when a firefighting truck ran over him, police said.
Most of the 15 fatalities in the forest fires have been firefighters, as Portugal, like neighboring Spain, suffers from its worst drought in decades. Low humidity, high temperatures and high winds, have allowed the fires to spread rapidly."
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After Earlier Exoneration, Paxil Linked to Adult Suicide Attempts - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
File this under "I told you so!"
OSLO, Aug. 22-Fifteen years after dismissing any association between the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) and adult suicide attempts, Norwegian researchers say a re-analysis of the data has found an association after all.
In a review of 16 studies that compared Paxil with placebo, the researchers found seven suicide attempts among those taking the drug, versus only one among those on placebo, said Ivar Aursnes, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Oslo.
"Patients and doctors should be warned that the increased suicidal activity observed in children and adolescents taking certain anti-depressant drugs may also be present in adults," Dr. Aursnes said.
However, the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline, responded that the study was flawed and would only cause "confusion and unnecessary concern" among patients.
The Norwegian study, published in the online journal BMC Medicine, appeared in the light of warnings in April by European health regulators that several anti-depressants, including Paxil, shouldn't be used to treat children because of a risk of suicide.
OSLO, Aug. 22-Fifteen years after dismissing any association between the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) and adult suicide attempts, Norwegian researchers say a re-analysis of the data has found an association after all.
In a review of 16 studies that compared Paxil with placebo, the researchers found seven suicide attempts among those taking the drug, versus only one among those on placebo, said Ivar Aursnes, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Oslo.
"Patients and doctors should be warned that the increased suicidal activity observed in children and adolescents taking certain anti-depressant drugs may also be present in adults," Dr. Aursnes said.
However, the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline, responded that the study was flawed and would only cause "confusion and unnecessary concern" among patients.
The Norwegian study, published in the online journal BMC Medicine, appeared in the light of warnings in April by European health regulators that several anti-depressants, including Paxil, shouldn't be used to treat children because of a risk of suicide.
