BBC on a study of the effectiveness of probiotics: “In that sense just buying probiotics at the supermarket without any tailoring, without any adjustment to the host, at least in part of the population, is quite useless.” (What? A health fad that’s not actually healthy? No way…)

+ Stat: Richard Sackler, member of family behind OxyContin, was granted patent for addiction treatment. (Now he just needs to get into the coffin-making business and the circle will be complete…)