SANOFI-AVENTIS has issued a statement confirming that its zolpidem, marketed as Stilnox in Australia and under the brand name Ambien in the USA, was not to blame for an "abhorrent and repugnant" tweet by TV celebrity Roseanne Barr.
Barr initially claimed her lapse was because "it was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting," with the drugmaker responding by saying: "While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication."
Barr's comment has had huge ramifications for the star, with her TV show cancelled immediately by the ABC network at an estimated cost of US$60m in foregone advertising revenue.
In a huge scientific breakthrough published in the Nature Communications journal this week, Irish paleontologists have discovered the earliest ever recorded case of dandruff.
A small feathered dinosaur called a microraptor, estimated to have lived about 125 million years ago, was found to have tiny flakes of fossilised skin on its body.
Researcher Maria McNamara from University College Cork said electron microscope scanning indicated the dinosaur exfoliation was made of tough cells called corneocytes containing keratin - just like modern human dandruff.
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