¢ KU professor Steve Ilardi has been getting national attention for his “cave man” approach to treating depression, thanks to a McClatchy Newspapers article that has circulated on the wire._His research steered him there, to an examination of the hunter-gatherer way of life, to a time when humans lived in roving, close-knit bands. Back to the Stone Age. What he learned led Ilardi and his research team at the University of Kansas to propose a program to reclaim six disappearing lifestyle elements. They call it Therapeutic Lifestyle Change, intended to help modern humans deal with depressive illness. The team identified factors that are antidepressant but are compromised by contemporary culture: Exercise, omega-3 consumption, light exposure, sleep, social connectedness and anti-ruminative behavior._The Journal-World wrote about the program in January 2006.¢ Sandy Praeger, Lawrence resident and Kansas insurance commissioner, is the subject of a short profile on [link to Yahoo][3]”>InsuranceJournal.com, a trade site for the insurance industry._Married to a Lawrence, Kansas physician, she has always taken the lead on health issues not only in her own state where she pushing a plan for small businesses to have access to lower rates, but at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) where she has been chair of the Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee._ [3]: oniArticleAdDisplayNoSurvey();