Xenotransplantation no solution to organ shortage    full text 91
     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  full text
              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 full text

The Tempest in the Bean Pot (GM soy beans)   full text 93

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