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Last week's decision to end the manufacture of a drug widely used in pregnancy raises awkward problems. Part of any solution should be that regulatory authorities are joined in legal suits.
The existence of electric charges which are fractions of the elementary electronic charge has been widely canvassed, but has now been cast in doubt. The search has however been a spur to ingenious experiment.
