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Sally Hargreaves, Senior Editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, interviews Karl Ekdahl from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control at the 2008 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Berlin, Germany (November 19-21).

Prof Ekdahl discusses the launch of the first ever European Antibiotic Awareness Day campaign that will take place every year on November 18th.

Side Effects by Alison Bass continues to generate controversy.

As described by a reviewer in the New England Journal of Medicine,(1) the book

used the case of Paxil to expose the unsavory and self-serving relationships among members of the pharmaceutical industry, psychiatrists, and members of the FDA.

The reviewer concluded,