White House slashes medical research on monkeys, sparking fierce debate

The effort has sparked uncertainty in South Carolina, where a research company maintains a free-ranging monkey colony on ...

Federal government adopts new strategy to reduce animal testing

The federal government has launched a new strategy to reduce the number of animals used in regulatory laboratory testing ...

Dogs at centre of London, Ont., hospital testing controversy may be re-homed

Following the announcement that they would stop using dogs in medical research, St. Joseph’s Health Care London says it is ...

Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

Doug Ford says the upcoming legislation will be simple: no more experimenting on cats and dogs because they are part of ...

SC patients are waiting for cures. Will animal research be the solution or a thing of the past?

An unlikely coalition of animal rights groups and politicians are demanding an end to federal funding for research using ...
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‘Organs-on-a-chip’ is one of many alternatives to animal testing

There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research. The new ...
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Warren legislator introduces bill to stop taxpayer-funded animal testing

Sen. Paul Wojno (D-Warren) introduced the “Queenie’s Law” bill on March 5 to prohibit canine experiments at publicly-funded institutions in Michigan. A companion bill was introduced in the Michigan ...
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National physicians committee pressures OHSU to end animal testing

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A national physicians group is denouncing Oregon Health and Science University’s use of live animals for medical training. More than 500 members of the Physicians Committee for ...