ANOTHER ECSTASY ERROR
A second study linking the drug ecstasy to brain damage is to be retracted by scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. A controversial paper published in September last year provoked alarm by suggesting that taking ecstasy for just one night might lead to Parkinson’s disease. However, the researchers later discovered they had given their monkeys speed, not ecstasy, as a result of a labelling error.
PARASITE HITS AUSTRALIA
The first cases of leishmaniasis in Australia have been recorded in four red kangaroos in the Northern Territory. Australia and Antarctica had until now been…
