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Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research

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In the United States, we are in the midst of a health care debate in which the pharmaceutical industry disguises itself as a champion of the people. The author also accuses Understanding Animal Research of being a UK front group for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

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I read the following in a book about the pharmaceutical industry by Marcia Angell (the first woman to serve as the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and currently a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School) called The Truth about the Drug Companies. It is about the Bayh-Dole Act and it has really stuck with me. {The

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European Money Goes to Alternative Testing Research

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We're not even talking drugs or medical treatment here, we're talking stupid cosmetics. A substantial fund of EUR50 million (US$74 million) is being offered to European research teams to develop alternatives to animal testing for cosmetics and related industries. Tags: europe animal research cosmetics medical research.

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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research

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But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures. Tags: animal experimentation medical research. This is an important issue.

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Group Pursues Investigation of US Labs

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The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A. Tags: animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging a probe of 50 U.S. Budkie, SAEN executive director. "If

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AVMA Reveals Itself As Apologist for Animal Research

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It should be no surprise that the American Veterinary Medical Association is an apologist. They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself. Here's the organization's defense of its primate veterinarian members. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animal research.

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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?

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The NC3Rs brings together stakeholders in the 3Rs in academia, industry, government and animal welfare organisations to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, and the translation of research findings into practice that will benefit both animals and science. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research.

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