Giovanna Di Sauro

I was going through my usual morning news reading, and then something in the European news section of the BBC really tickled my interest: it is the story of a once successful French cardiologist who beat his alcohol dependence prescribing himself a muscle relaxant drug.

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.

This is the second post dedicated to Bisphenol A (BPA). In this post I will talk about the research regarding BPA biological activity, and the medical as well as ecological implications of BPA presence for us and our environment.

School is over. It’d better be, after five years of undergrad + co-op. So the time has come for me to put my hands on this website, write some posts, fill in the pages…and figure out the back end. While I try to figure out something really interesting to talk about, I am going to pick some science news for you (from Science Daily).