Something for the weekend

A couple of interesting science articles for the weekend:

On biased research:

A research team at Children’s Hospital Boston performed a meta-analysis of 206 nutrition-related studies on milk, juice and soft drinks conducted from 1999 to 2003. Of the 111 that had declared financial sponsorship, 54 percent were at least partly funded by industry. Industry-supported studies were four to seven times more likely to favor their sponsors than research paid for by disinterested parties.

Some depressing news:

... results, published today in the Lancet, showed that depression had more impact on sufferers than angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes.