Volume 10  Issue 4                                                     Winter 1999/2000

The Civil Abolitionist


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Imutran predicts pig transplants "within a year"  51         text 1       home

Who's in control here?
text 148  plus info on world domination a by big business

Government Agencies Lax in Protecting Patients in Experiments

FDA ignores advice of its own experts on bio-tech foods

1930's Kids killed by TB in cow milk

Monsanto's BGH hormone inexact copy

Improvement on BGH 

More biotech information 
text 150

More drawbacks to GE/GM foods 
text 150

Stem cells heralded as the scientific advance of 1999

ON THE DRUG SCENE   

  •       Re-importing drugs
  •       Pfizer sales campaign
  •       UK drug advertising ban challenged
  •       Drug firm threatens to leave UK if new drug not apporved
  •       Magic bullet at last?
  •       South African prexy questions safety of AZT

RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS
  •    Veggies evaluated for stroke prevention   
  •    Also osteoporosis
  •    Another discovery from observation
  •    Parkinson's linked to environment in both kinds of twins
  •    No long-term benefit from adenoid surgery
  •    Taxol rated best breast cancer drug.

The Three R's a gift to vivisectors

DLRM policy statement

Medical advances from good engineering

MAILBAG
Letters from: Lee Davis, Maple Ridge, BC; Wendy L Szabo, Pinellas Park FL; Michael Burman, Birmingham UK; Margaret Newson, Whetherby UK; Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA; Kiyoshi Osada, Niigata City Japan; Michael Skeirik, Vacaville CA; Irwin Bross, PhD, Amherst NY; Helen Fullerton, PhD Wales; Gary Krasner, Dir. , Coaliton for Informed Choice and emails from "Big DTC" and Terra Burgess.

BOOK REVIEWS

Howard F Lyman: The Mad Cowboy, Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat --with Glen Merzer

Marjorie Spiegel: The Dreaded Comparison

Israeli Schools ban animal experiments

Britain to ban experiments on dogs 
- Turned out not to be true

Doctors advise bypass surgery overdone

Medical mistakes discussed openly

US Surgical CEO bitten by neighbor's dog

"Significant Quote"
Dr Dusty Miller, gene therapist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, referring to Dr James Wilson, leader of study that killed Jesse Gelsinger:  "I don't know of anyone in gene therapy who has done more animal studies before starting on people."

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Autumn 1999 issue                 Spring 2000 issue                  Index 


Civitas response  to article on gene therapy



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