— Super-size that supper! Researchers analyzed 52 paintings of the Last Supper — including Leonardo DaVinci’s famous work — and found that plates and entrées have both increased in size by nearly 70% over the past millennium; bread size has also increased by 23%. You don’t need Robert Langdon to decode the ‘secret’ hidden in these paintings: As one study author notes, “art imitates life.” (BBC)

— The US Food and Drug Administration has called on doctors to suspend using GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix, a vaccine for the diarrhea-causing rotavirus. A supposedly harmless pig virus called porcine circovirus type 1 was found to have contaminated GSK’s vaccine supply; officials recommended Merck’s RotaTeq as an alternative. (Reuters)

— A health campaign in Poland is being criticized as sexual harassment by a women’s advocacy group. A cancer hospital in the southern town of Opole sent a letter to employers, asking for them to encourage the use of mammograms. However, the campaign slogan — “I check the breasts of my employees myself” — has a Polish feminist group fuming. (SF Chronicle)

— Alzheimer’s drugs may do as much harm as help, according to new research. Certain medications work to break down the beta peptides implicated in Alzheimer’s, but the shortened peptides can instead form calcium channels in neural membranes. Increased calcium levels, like beta-amyloid plaques, might lead to neural degeneration. (The Scientist)

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