Drug company secrets becoming public as companies try to expand uses for existing drugs   text

Smallpox Advisory by Sherri Tenpenny, DO   text  (scroll down, but see letter to editor by Sandy Mintz on the way)

CWD threatened deer and most likely humans who eat them  text

Women's Health Initiative report on hormone therapy

European Union

Cow proteins found in chickens  text

ON THE DRUG SCENE
   Drugs to counter other drugs
   20% of new drugs are likely to have side effects
   Middlemen manage appointments for sales pitches
   Study warns of side effects in newly-approved drugs
   Drug reps deal directly with patients in doctors' examining rooms
   Rezulin victims and survivors due Warner Lambert

RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS
   Treating heart attack victims
   Stent improves outcome of emergency balloon angioplasty
   Placebo as good as knee surgery
   SIDS attributed to bacterium
   Daily baby aspirin reduces colon cancer incidence
   Vitamin C may reduce heart attack and stroke
   Vaccine virus found in cancers

From alchemy to science and back to alchemy  - Irwin D Bross. PhD

Study of mercury in vaccines suppressed by CDC   text

24-D causes dog cancers

BOOK REVIEWS
Eternal Treblinka by Charles Patterson
Animals Lament -the Prophet Denounces

LETTERS
Jack Tanis
Shanie  Aero
Bella Stoll
Deirde Balaam
Jackie Jackelo
Andy Gach
Pauline Vander Weel

MEMORIALS
Hans Fischinger
Spike Milligan
Rhona Zaid

Back page
Widow of failed gene surgery victim sues hospital
Rio bans animal performances
Germany legalizes animals' right to respect and dignity

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