1. Mouse pain study stirs debate : Nature News
by the Canadian Council on Animal Care, the national organization that oversees the use of Animals in research.
Canadian Animal-research guidelines preclude or strongly discourage procedures that elicit severe pain "at or above the pain
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2. Improving risk/benefit estimates in new drug trials
that eradicates disease in animals. Then, a few years later, the drug bombs in human trials. In the latest issue of the journal PLoS Medicine , ethics experts Jonathan Kimmelman, associate professor at McGill's Biomedical ethics Unit and
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3. New markers for allergic disorders thanks to analysis of medical databases
also reduce the need for animal trials in clinical studies.
Published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology , the study builds on data analyses of freely available medical databases representing studies of countless numbers of patients
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4. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Petsavers Foundation
Society and Animals Forum
United Animal Nations
World Wildlife Fund
Animal Advocacy Resources
Advocacy for Animals - Encyclopaedia Britannica
AnimalConcerns.org
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5. For Aging New Mexico Chimps, Retirement or Medical Research? - NYTimes.com
began shipping some of the animals by special trucks to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio and plans on moving the remaining chimpanzees by the end of 2011.
The move
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6. New 'animal studies' courses look at culture, not biology - USATODAY.com
for their courses on animals in human culture to H-animal, a discussion group hosted by H-Net.
The field that has perhaps been most amenable to examining humans and other animals is the law. By the animal Legal Defense Fund 's own count,
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7. State must disclose information on substance-abuse tests using monkeys - Tim...
directed by militant animal rights extremists at research facilities and individual researchers who are engaged in research using animal subjects" was evidence that the information should not be made public.
The court noted PCRM already
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8. PLoS Medicine: Acute Human Lethal Toxicity of Agricultural Pesticides: A Pro...
Methods Top
Ethics Statement
Ethics approval for this data collection has been obtained from Oxfordshire Clinical Research Ethics Committee, Oxford Tropical Medicine Ethics Committee, Colombo University Faculty of Medicine Ethics
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9. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
regarding the use of the animal model in biomedical research.
AFMA opposes animal-modeled or animal-based research as a modality for seeking cures and treatments for human disease based on overwhelming scientific evidence that findings from
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10. National Anti-Vivisection Society: NAVS' Science Advisor Publishes Scientifi...
Of Predictive Ability Of Animal Models January 15, 2009
NAVS science advisor Ray Greek MD has, along with Niall Shanks PhD and Jean Greek DVM published an article on the inability of Animal models to predict human response.
For
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