• THE REAL STORY OF GALILEO: Coverage of the launch in Kazakhstan of a satellite intended to pave the way for the EU's Galileo global positioning system again highlighted one of the media's strangest failures in 2005. The real story about Galileo is much more interesting.
• THE SEVEN BASIC MYTHS: Dr Richard North replies to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) series of "myth rebuttals" about the EU constitution.
  
  

• ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, SENILE DEMENTIA: In an excerpt from Phillip Day's The ABC's of Disease, this all-to-common condition is discussed as well as the possible causes and prevention.
• ANH NEW YEAR UPDATE: A look at the Alliance for Natural Health's highlights of 2005 and where it is headed in 2006.
  
• AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW FOR CANCER SUFFERERS: Part time Costa Blanca resident, Tom Malley, has a vested interest in cancer research; having fought and beaten the disease, he has spent countless hours investigating the myriad of treatments available. He has come up with some interesting information that he wishes to share. This two- part article will take a glimpse into these findings.
• CANCER MISDIAGNOSIS: A 20% rate of misdiagnosis by doctors - one out of every five patients who died in the medical intensive care unit at one of the nation's best hospitals - were misdiagnosed by their doctors - a rate that mirrors those found in ICUs [intensive care units] nationwide, new research shows.

 

• ANOTHER JAB? Now that we have all these immunisation injections for children, Alice Thomson wonders whether all these vaccinations are worth it.
• THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK FIRST VICTORIES OF 2006: Rockford Iowa and Yarmouth Massachusetts say no to fluoride.
  
• WHAT WE EAT IS GOING TO OUR HEADS: Changes in western diets and farming methods over the last 50 years have played a major role in significant rises in mental health problems, according to a report to be published today.
  
• ANTI-DAIRY ADVERT ATTACKS MILK'S 'NATURAL' IMAGE: A controversial new billboard featuring a well-dressed businessman drinking milk straight from a cow began a seven-city tour of Britain this week.
• THE TRUTH ABOUT FISH OIL: Dave Woynarowski details numerous benefits of fish oil.
• GREATER USE OF STATINS: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the body that vets NHS treatments, has decided that statins should be prescribed to anyone whose risk of developing heart disease in the following 10 years is at least 20 per cent. This will mean that a further 3.3 million people will become eligible in England and Wales in addition to the two million already taking the drugs.
• WARNING OVER VIAGRA: Men who take drugs for impotency such as Viagra or Cialis, and who have previously had a heart attack, may have a 10-fold increased risk of damaging their eyesight, an American study claims today.
• A PSYCHIATRIST SPEAKS OUT AGAINST PSYCHIATRY: Irwin Savodnik, psychiatrist, philosopher and professor at UCLA, discusses psychiatry's obsession with turning everything into a 'disease'.
  
• ONE DAY AT A TIME: Phillip Day on the subject of attitude balance as applied to to our activities each day.
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our new subscribers about these and other subjects.
  

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