Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...
Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: ...
BETHESDA, Md. (7News) — Earlier this month, the U.S. Navy shut down all experiments on cats and dogs. Days before the National Institute of Health (NIH) shut down its last beagle experiment. That ...
WASHINGTON — Researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs will implant pacemakers in the hearts of 54 dogs that will be euthanized at the end of the tests and surgically embed wires and sensors ...
The most galling element of experiments on animals is how unnecessary they are, writes Dr Julia Baines ...