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This issue's round-up of EU stories...

• SWEDEN SAYS NO TO EURO: Sweden's monumental vote casts doubt across the Eurozone.
• BRITAIN LOSING TRUST IN BLAIR: Hopes for a referendum put on hold as government fends off battles over Iraq and unsolved problems at home.
• EU'S HIDDEN HAND ON OUR TELEPHONES: In all the acres of coverage of the great "118 directory inquiries fiasco" one rather significant point was missing... why we had to abolish the old "192" system.
• GISCARD WARNS AGAINST CHANGING CONSTITUTION: Valery Giscard d'Estang implored Europe's leaders this week to stick with the draft text of the European constitution or face disaster.

The fluoride debates continue...

• FROM THE IFIN BULLETIN PART1: The UK is in the spotlight now as MPs and fluoride oponents do battle.
• FROM THE IFIN BULLETIN PART2: More from the International Fluoride Information Network.

...And our usual dose of health news and tips for this month.

• WHEN THE DOCTOR IS NOT IN... Heart specialists will be as rare as hen's teeth this week. You will find them, should you need one, in Vienna, at the European Society of Cardiology's conference. But what really happens to our health in the doctor's absence?
• RETHINKING THE MENTAL ILLNESS INDUSTRY: The American public is constantly being told that various forms of mental and emotional distress and disordered behaviour are 'illnesses like any other'. Yet, does the public know that the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual now has 374 'mental disorders' versus 112 in 1952 and, even though we now have all these new 'diseases', that not one has given up its biological secrets?
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: In this two part report we begin with an excerpt from Phillip Day's new book The ABC's of Disease and conclude with an article by Dave Holland MD, shedding new light on this perplexing disease.
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 2:
• SOY, THE MIRACLE FOOD OR PANDORA'S BOX? Yet another in-depth look at the dangers of soy.
• SUPPLEMENT REGULATION: Who's behind it and why you should oppose it?
• TRANS-FAT: Exactly what is it and why is it so dangerous?
• VARICOSE VEINS: This exctract from The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day details the cause of this common condition and what to do about it.
• MAILBAG: Letters from our readers about these and other subjects.