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Xenotransplantation experiments in Mexico and Cook Islands }
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Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may be overused
Cow milk as a cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome text
Proctor & Gamble's Iams promotes vivisection
Unvaccinated French troops free of Gulf War Syndrome
US Defense Department acknowledges Gulf War illness
GM corn invades Mexico
Green pigs and ham courtesy Japanese scientists
Bushmeat trade potential for another AIDS-like disease
Amalgam filling fight in New Hampshire
No more chimpanzee experiments in Europe
Europe to stop testing cosmetics on animals
UK and NZ grant chimpanzees human rights
Viagra good for seals
Curing disease in mice and rats
ON THE DRUG SCENE
Super aspirin kills as well as cures
Ghost-writing doctors help promote drug sales
Drug enforcement agency urges control of OxyContin
Supreme Court denies nausea relief of marijuana
More aggressive us of cholesterol-lowering drugs
15 states sue Aventis for high drug prices
RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS
Ear tubes fail to improve child development
Butter vs. margarine
Chelation fails to reduce high lead levels
No lead rather than low led --childhood study
Brits achieve breakthrough in pain research
World Trade Center dogs to be monitored
REVIEWS
The Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza by J. Perko
reviewed by Dorothy Kendall
SCIENCE FICTIONS, A Scientific Mystery, A Massive Cover-up,
and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo by John Crewdson
excerpt from review by Helen Epstein in Los Angeles Times
LETTERS
Dr Stuart and Terry Hirschberg, Short Hills NJ
David Brainerd, Surprise AZ
Gill Williamson, Scotland
email from student
Lura B. Irish, Home WA
Connie Matthews, Pittsfield MA
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