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CANADIANS FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
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Americans take it for granted that vitamins and food supplements will always be available for them at health food stores and pharmacies or through the mail. Canadians are less certain these days, having already lost over-the counter access to at least 167 harmless remedies like melatonin, feverfew, and ginger, now regulated as prescription drugs.
DOCTORS AND LAWYERS FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE SEEK WORLDWIDE BAN AGAINST XENOTRANSPLANTS in a statement issued following their fourth international scientific congress in Vancouver July 5, 1997. The statement cited the dangers of cross species viral transmissions and called for more public participation in the decision-making process.
VANCOUVER CONGRESS elicits intelligent audience participation in response to papers presented and sees launch of Dr. Moneim Fadali's new book Animal Experiments a Harvest of Shame.
The paper of Michael Mansfield, QC, was reproduced in The Sunday Times" (London). Another article appeared in the British legal journal "Lawyer".
ISRAELI MILK SCANDAL An article in The International Journal of Health Services attributes former high rate of Israeli breast cancer to health department's refusal to recognize carcinogenic potential of pesticides in dairy products in concentrations as high as 100 times the maximum permitted in the US.
"PERFECT PATIOS" starts with an ad in Radio Times pushing pesticides for weed and insect-free patios followed by information of pesticides in foods and cancer incidence in farmers and others who handle them. (All tested on animals, of course)
THEORY ON GULF WAR SYNDROME by David Brainerd points to inoculations given military personnel.
_____ON THE DRUG SCENE_____
Thalidomide Forever New uses for this dreadful drug
Doctors Receive Heart Drug Warning against prescribing calcium blockers for any but approved uses after increase in incidence of heart attacks.
Fen-Phen combo found harmful already banned in Sweden.
Antiobiotic Observations by Dr. Ed Sargent on reasons why doctors tend to overprescribe antibiotics.
Skin-Cap Warning Issued Shipments of psoriasis drug halted.
Prozac Promotion Eli Lilly seeks approval to produce its anti-depressant in orange and peppermint flavors to appeal to depressed children.
_____RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS_____
Clinical Research is What Counts Small survey of article (in the British Medical Journal) which concludes "Animal experimentation is all about obtaining data for papers and attracting grant money for 'basic' research. Clinical observation and studies are for helping people with health problems overcome them."
Hunting Hard on Hearts A study shows that just seeing a deer can double a hunter's heart rate.
Asthma Inhalants Linked to Cataracts in an Australian study
Alzheimer's Patients Helped by Vitamin E a study at Columbia University found.
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EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER BY SUSAN GORDON denounces taking the middle ground when dealing with unconscionable practices on animals.
DR. STANLEY BURZYNSKI EXONERATED of charges that he had failed to comply with a judge's order regarding trials of his anti-cancer drug antineoplaston.
ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT ACT HR 746 and S 578
CANADIANS SUE GOVERNMENT to rescind "overly stringent" regulations on vitamins and food supplements.
DRUGS BY DEFINITION A Canadian writer carries government food restrictions to logical conclusion that would ban foods like sugar, salt and dairy products
AUSTRALIAN ORPHANS USED AS GUINEA PIGS for testing vaccines including an adult influenza vaccine from which adverse reactions were expected.
ITALIAN POLICE WARN OF POSSIBLE TRADE IN CHILDREN'S ORGANS
THE HOT DOG HAZARD
HOT DOG MILK MUDDLE major product recall
INDIA FREES STUDENTS FROM VIVISECTION
FDA BANS SOME ANIMAL PARTS IN FARM FEEDS but doesn't go far enough .
SQUIRRELS FOUND TO TRANSMIT TSE Another vector in the transmission of "mad cow" disease and human Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease.
BOOK REVIEWS
Dr. Moneim A. Fadali: ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION a Harvest of Shame
A prominent heart surgeon minces no words, almost poetically in places, on the futility of applying animal experiments to human problems .
Alix Fano: LETHAL LAWS a detailed and dispassionate explanation, meticulously researched, of how using animals in toxicology testing does a disservice to humans.
Published in the UK. Available soon in the US.
Craig Brestrup: DISPOSABLE ANIMALS ending the tragedy of throwaway pets a study of the attitudes in Western society that contribute to this problem and what can be done about it.
MAILBAG Letters from Jack Tanis, Ingrid Newkirk, Nancy Sailor, David Cantor, Phyllis Deitschel, DVM, (South Africa), rrlee Etzweiler, Duane Martin, Devra Scotland (Australia), David Cutler, Elizabeth Janiszewski (Australia)
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COMMERCIAL FISHING IN GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK is still being debated. The National Park Service (NPS) proposes a compromise solution in which fishing would be allowed in park waters outside Glacier Bay itself, but, in spite of a court order to end fishing in waters designated as "wilderness", would allow crab-fishing to continue in the inner sanctum for the next 15 years. The crab fishing
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