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Three years ago, in response to mounting criticism from environmentalists and physicians, the Clinton administration stopped using information from industry studies conducted on humans to determine the amount of pesticides that could be applied to fruits, vegetables and other crops.

This is related to the problem that physicians have had since World War II, when deciding whether or not to use the test results from Nazi doctors testing Jewish subjects in concentration camps. Since these tests cannot be duplicated, this is the only data available in many cases about the reaction of the human body to things like extreme cold.
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The drug industry?s efforts to restrict customer access to nutritional supplements and other natural health therapies have been thwarted by a huge consumer letter writing campaign.

Pharmaceutical industry executives and politicians representing more than 50 countries met in Berlin as part of the UN ?Codex Alimentarius? Commission. The purpose of this meeting was to establish global legislation to restrict access to vitamins and make them available only by prescription.

This plan was met with an unprecedented degree of protest. Over 100 million letters were sent by people from around the world to the members of the commission and politicians. More than half of them came from the United States.
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Inventor Dean Kamen has finally unveiled ?It? (aka ?Ginger?). It?s a one-person, battery-powered scooter that resembles a lawn mower that?s easy to ride and hard to fall off.It?s officially called the Segway Human Transporter and has gyroscopes to keep it upright and a sensitive steering mechanism that starts it moving when the rider leans forward. It has a top speed of 12 miles an hour, and can go 15 miles on one battery charge. ?All the knowledge that went into knowing how to walk goes into this machine,? says Kamen. ?It kind of walks for you.?
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There is little risk of mad cow disease turning up in American cattle despite the spread of the illness in Europe and Japan, according to a Harvard University study. Harvard researchers briefed Congress about the chance of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), infecting U.S. livestock. The disease, for which there is no known cure, destroys an animal?s brain and may spread to humans who eat tainted meat. The study concluded that ?the risk of an introduction (of mad cow disease) was next to nothing.?
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