The battle for hearts and minds
The role of science in policy-making has been a matter for debate in recent years. This is especially true of chemicals policy, which needs to rely on the bedrock of sound science if it is to have cre...
Personalised probiotics
In a paper in the Lancet in February 2008, researchers reported1 that 24 people taking part in trials of a novel treatment for acute pancreatitis involving probiotics had died, compared with only nine...