Paxil + Alcohol = Paxihol?

In celebration of their 10th anniversary, Slate is publishing a 'best of' anthology, which, after reading Seth Stevenson's candid and lucid account of his encounter with Paxil, I immediately ordered from their site Amazon. I was well impressed.

link to article here
download MP3 audio of Seth Stevenson reading this story here

Benevolent Big Pharma?

Apparently Swiss drug giant Novartis is opening up their genetic research data on diabetes to the world hopefully setting a precedent of making raw genetic information public. I'll try not to be cynical about the motives of the big drug co.'s but it's hard when you read stories like this, this, and this.