• EU FOOD LAW JUDGED INVALID: An EU law restricting the sale of food supplements, including vitamins, is violating various guidelines and so is invalid, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice said on Tuesday (5 April).
• FRENCH POLL INDICATES 'NO' VOTE: Europe's political establishment was sent reeling yesterday by the first opinion poll to suggest that French voters will reject the draft European constitution and deal the treaty a fatal blow.
• EURO-ARMY SHOULD FILL US WITH FEAR: Christopher Booker tells of more mis-information and poor management at the core of the ailing EU.
• UK CHALLENGES SUBSIDY: The Government is preparing for a showdown with its European Union partners over the more than £14 million that Britain spends every year subsidising a network of elite schools for the children of EU bureaucrats.
• EU CRECHE MATCHES ANNUAL FEES FOR ETON: European Union civil servants are building a subsidised creche for their children where places will cost more than £20,000 a year - almost as much as fees at Eton.
  

... AND THE ROUND-UP OF HEALTH NEWS FOR THIS MONTH

• AIDS SUMMARY: An excerpt from Phillip Day's The ABC's of Disease.

• BAN THE 'DIRTY DOZEN': The children's food campaigner, Lizzie Vann, has identified what she calls 'the 12 most common artificial additives that carry serious health concerns'. Many of these additives are already banned in other countries.
• MASS DRUGGING OF SCHOOLCHILDREN REMAINS DARK SECRET: Believe it or not, until recently, it has been perfectly legal for schools to force schoolchildren to be put on psychoactive mind-altering drugs as a condition of attending that school (USA).
  
• PHONE MAST LETTER: A conservative MP speaks of his concerns about mobile phone mast safety and the government's reluctance to take notice of those advocating caution.
• FLUORIDE VICTORY: The Fluoride Action Network reports another victory in the USA.
  
• HARMFUL SIDE-EFFECTS OF MS DRUGS: Biogen Idec's Avonex has been linked to critical, potentially fatal, side-effects. Liver trouble has been found to be a side effect among all drugs in the beta-interferon class.
• SOY REBUTTAL: Dr Russell Blaylock and Dr Joseph Mercola set the record straight on the dangers of soy in rebuttal to harsh comments by a newsletter editor.
• US DOCTOR SHORTAGE BY 2020 MAY INCREASE LIFESPANS: Several studies predict a doctor shortage in the future but there is evidence to show this may not actually be a bad thing.
• THE DARK SIDE OF THE VACCINE BUSINESS: On the eve of an historic, billion-dollar world vaccination campaign, a leaked transcript ignites questions of vaccine safety and research corruption.
• ARE YOU ORTHOREXIC?: Orthorexia nervosa is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. Unlike the related anorexia, sufferers are concerned not with quantity but with quality.
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our new subscribers about these and other subjects.
  

10 25 50 100