Giovanna Di Sauro

Or at least, this is what a study funded by AstraZeneca suggests. The study has been recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine — you can download a free pdf copy of it here (watch out, it opens in a new window).

Or at least, this is what a study funded by AstraZeneca suggests. The study has been recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine — you can download a free pdf copy of it here (watch out, it opens in a new window). In this blog post, I am going to examine and summarize the paper, and trying to draw some conclusions from it. Are the results reliable? Was the follow-up long enough, and their study sample of appropriate size? Find out just below the fold.

I usually do not mention politics on this blog, but today I am due for an exception. Yesterday night, Barack Obama became the 44th President-elect of the United States of America.
I am not going to discuss this because the States are such an influential player in world politics, so influential that their decisions often have a decisive impact for most other countries involved in alliances, wars, or treaties with them. I am going to discuss it because, although it now seems inevitable that Obama should win this election, it was in fact not so.