• CRIMINAL SANCTIONS TO ENFORCE EU LAW: European commissioners yesterday hailed a landmark legal judgment that could give them the power to use criminal sanctions to enforce EU law.
• BRUSSELS WANTS IMMIGRANTS TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO EU: Immigrants to Britain will have to swear an oath of allegiance to EU laws and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, rather than the Queen, under a proposal announced by Brussels.
  
• IRONY AS UKIP RECEIVES EU CASH: UKIP this week received 250,000 (£170,000) of taxpayers money to help it campaign against Britain's membership of the EU.
  

• CALIFORNIA ACCUSES DRUG COMPANIES OF FRAUD: The attorney general of California sued 39 drug companies on Thursday, accusing them of bilking the state of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for medicines.
• CANCER WARD TO OFFER FREE ALCOHOL: Cancer patients are to be offered free spirits, wine and beer in their hospital beds...A drinks trolley replete with free sherry, gin, wine, Guinness and beer will be trundled around the ward in the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke at least twice a day.
• THE PAXIL PROTEST: A group of concerned United States citizens have come together in a high profile manner to warn the public about a dangerous and defective drug, and to protest the egregious conduct of its manufacturer and distributor.

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

• DANGEROUS DECIBELS: CHICAGO - Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the ears - including cell phones - is contributing to hearing loss in younger people.
• ELECTRIC FIELDS CAN MAKE YOU SICK: A government agency has acknowledged for the first time that people can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens.
  
• THE EYES HAVE IT: People spend 128,780 hours during their working life in front of a TV or computer screen, a survey claims. The average couch potato clocks up 30.5 hours a week watching TV and workaholics 35 hours at their VDUs. 90 per cent of computer users suffer 'screen fatigue' - sore, itchy, irritated eyes or temporary blurred vision.
  
• FOR EVERY PILL THEY INVENT ANOTHER ILL: Mary Wakefield discovers the true modus operandi of the big drug companies and reports her eye-opening journey to the dark side.
• MELANOMA MIRACLES: Ginny Fraser tells of her battle with melignant melanoma, the failed radiotherapy and subsequent successful treatment through diet and B-17.
• FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK ONLINE PETITION: For EClub subscribers in the USA, a chance to play your part in the fight against forced medication. Sign the online petition at the FAN website.
• CHEMICAL WARFARE ON HUMANS: Investigative reporter Robert Whitaker, author of the groundbreaking book Mad In America, examines how the mammoth psychiatric drug industry endangers the public by covering up the untold cases of suffering, anguish and disease caused by its most widely prescribed anti-depressants and -psychotic medications.
• THE SODUKO WORKOUT: Research has shown that keeping the mind agile is just as important as keeping fit in the battle to stay young.
  
• MAILBAG: This month's collection of letters from our new subscribers about these and other subjects.
  

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