A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made that country the first to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21% of voters in ...

College researchers are accustomed to having animal-rights groups watch their every move. Now they are getting more intense scrutiny from another formidable source: the federal government. After ...

Full disclosure: I am a scholar at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and, in disagreement with some of my colleagues, I am opposed to animal experimentation. But I also know that my ...

Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, a national watchdog animal rights organization, filed a federal complaint for $114,000 against USC Oct. 30 after the United States Department of Agriculture found ...

The U.S. government is the world’s foremost underwriter of animal experimentation, accounting for two-thirds of animal research funding worldwide, according to Goodman. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...

In this article, AWI examines the ramifications of these actions for animals in laboratories. photo by Unique Vision The good: Plans to reduce animal experimentation On April 10, the US Food and Drug ...

Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, a national watchdog organization for lab research on animals, sent a letter to the director of the National Institutes of Health on April 8, asking that the NIH revoke ...

The fight between researchers and animal rights activists seems to have stagnated, with neither side — and neither impassioned letter — yielding to the opposing viewpoint.

Nim is not the only stain on Columbia’s record of animal experimentation. In January 1986, the National Institute of Health investigated Columbia’s facilities. The NIH found deficiencies in the number ...

Medical research on animal subjects has enabled many of the most important advances in modern medicine, from the therapeutic use of penicillin (which was first tested in mice) to organ ...