What to Do About Endocrine Disruptors? A Q&A with Linda Birnbaum Nov 21, 2009
Some focus is on epidemiology but much of it is animal experimentation. We brought all of these investigators together in October to facilitate collaboration sharing of samples, standards. (Scientific American)
Nasa to irradiate monkeys for space voyage research... Nov 3, 2009
" There are people who steal animals to sell them to research labs, who knowingly buy them. As a Humane Society volunteer, I can tell you that there are people who, with their children in tow, show up wherever someone has advertised in the paper for free animals, or animals free to good homes. Those people who stand at the grocery store and hand out their unwanted puppies, kittens and rabbits no doubt choose to give no thought to the lives ahead for those animals. What can we expect from a... (The Drudge Report)
Letters to the Editor Oct 8, 2009
Re "Animals still vital to medical studies" (Viewpoints, Oct. 4): Since the California Biomedical Research Association is funded by and represents people who torment and kill animals in laboratories, it is no surprise that its president champions animal experimentation, despite its inherent cruelty and demonstrated scientific failure. In fact, drug testing on animals is a dismal failure. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
European REACH Legislation For Chemicals May Require More Animals And Funds Than Estimated Aug 28, 2009
The full analysis will appear the same day as an electronic prepublication of the September 2009 edition of the journal ALTEX, Alternatives to Animal Experimentation. "As a toxicologist, I support the aims of REACH it is the biggest investment into consumer safety ever," said study author, Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD, Doerenkamp-Zbinden Professor and Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology and director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. (Science Daily)
Infinite Health Resources Celebrates Four Years, the World's Most Informative Privately Owned Health Resource Center and On-line Health Store Jun 29, 2009
Their unwavering support and efforts have practically eliminated animal experimentation in the pharmaceutical world. Their concrete belief in living a healthy lifestyle through wholefoods as the first line of defense against disease is unheard of in the medical world. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Brown Dogs and Red Herrings Jun 4, 2009
(Many years later, Julia Lakavage would tell reporters that Pepper and her other dogs were "like family members children that don't grow up.") That notion extended to the very upper reaches of society: Queen Victoria of Englandwhose included Skye terriers Islay, Cairnach, and Dandie Dinmot; King Charles spaniel Dash; greyhound Nero; mastiff Hector; and many morewas well-known to be suspicious of the new science of animal experimentation. In 1875, the year before the passage of... (Slate)
Pepper Goes to Washington Jun 3, 2009
The silver collar, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of dogdom," had been concocted in 1946 by the National Society for Medical Research, as part of a broad effort to defend the practice of animal experimentation from its most vocal critics ... A 1950 from the Los Angeles Times growled that "the fanatics who oppose animal experimentation for sentimental reasons are being joined, and in some part led, by Communists and Communist sympathizers interested in sabotaging national defense."). (Slate)
Mouse genome laid bare to science May 27, 2009
Some groups oppose animal experimentation, campaigning to ban or limit the animals used. In the UK, growth in the use of genetically modified (GM) animals - mainly mice - is largely responsible for a steady rise in the numbers of animals used in experiments since 1997. (BBC News -- Science)
The Montauk Monster In Long Island May 15, 2009
Still others tried to identify it as a hog or boar, or even just a bull terrier that was an unfortunate victim of animal experimentation. All speculation has been done exclusively on the images of the 2008 monster because, unfortunately, that body disappeared before tissue samples could be taken for DNA analysis. (Suite101.com)
Animal welfare: Catheter and mouse May 8, 2009
Yet there are vast gaps in medical knowledge which animal experimentation can help close ... At first sight American animal experimentation appears modest by comparison ... Animal experimentation has taught humanity a great deal and saved countless lives. (The Economist)
The Case Against Animal Testing Apr 20, 2009
Why Animal Experimentation is a Cruel Waste ... As alternatives are becoming more readily available, we must ask ourselves if perhaps it is time that animal experimentation in all forms be abolished, leaving it as a dark memory with the other mistakes of the past. (Suite101.com)
Over 200 Formerly Frozen Embryos Have Been Adopted by Families Mar 16, 2009
The subject must be a volunteer, there must be no alternative, results of animal experimentation must have been proven successful, the subject must be able to voluntarily end the experiment, there must be no possibility of injury, disability, or death, and the promise must outweigh the risk. Embryonic stem cell research violates each of these principles in a manner reminiscent of experiments at Nuremberg. (Human Events Online)
