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Xenotransplantation no solution to organ shortage

     International coalition denounces front group for misleading articles

            Alexion threatens pig to human transplants before end of 1999


Human sperm detected in rats and mice

              subsequent information: human children fathered by this process


DLRM holds 5th International Scientific Congress

                "Informed Consent in Clinical Trials"


Health and consumer groups urge that federal dietary

        recommendations be based on fruits and vegetables


Canada discredits Monsanto study of milk hormone


The Tempest in the Bean Pot (GM soy beans)


The National Cancer Institute touts clinical trials

     "At the heart of our research is clinical trials--testing new proce-    dures , techniques and drugs to help cancer patients beat the odds.  The most important breakthroughs in cancer treatment have been made in clinical trials."  (i.e. NOT through animal experimentation!)

Source:  NCI appeal for funds from their center at the University of Rochester       


New meat inspection "a dismal failure"


The best way to avoid food-borne illness


ON THE DRUG SCENE

        Public Citizen critiques drug company math     

          NARAL seeks equity in drug insurance

          Second thoughts on HRT


RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS

          Calcium pills found to prevent colon cancer

          Calcium study 1996

          Good science can be bad

          Clinical trial halted

          Vitamin C inhibits polyp reoccurrence

          Antioxidant in green tea identified


MAILBAG

        Letters from Sarah McCabe, William F Strole, Herman Lenz,

           Maite Kropp,   Irwin D. Bross, PhD,  Donna Worthington,

           Ruth Gehlert


MEMORIALS

         Jan Fasano, Lou Moss, Ethel Petrillo, Mrs Bernstein, and two

            cat companions of Susan Gordon


BOOK REVIEW

          Martin J. Walker: Louis Le Ribault's Resistance 

            Slingshot Publications BM Box 8314, London WCIN 3XX #5.50


When Cobwebs Fall from the Sky  by Dorothy Kendall   selected             

             bits from late night talk radio


We must deal with reality using real science to fight

          pseudo science by David Brainerd  - An activist's crusade


Vivisectors tripping themselves up in New Zealand

           by Phil Clayton


Campbell's criticized for misleading ad citing animal study


Pigs enjoy computers and don't want sessions to end


Sensible research on blisters

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