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Imutran predicts pig transplants "within a year"

Who's in control here? 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

More drawbacks to GE/GM foods

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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