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MARCH 1, 2009

The EU is so far ahead of the US when it comes to developing alternative testing methods, it's embarrassing. It has gone so far as to establish a website for tracking the development of methods to replace, reduce, and refine current animal testing in EU nations. They talk out of both sides of their you-know-what.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. Tags: animal research Netherlands.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Tags: animal research medical research. Here's her piece in the Huffington Post.

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JUNE 12, 2010

This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. Oftentimes, scientists seem to think that they just need to waive their PhDs and research projects in everyone's faces and we should all shut up and bow our heads to their great wisdom. It is about the Bayh-Dole Act and it has really stuck with me.

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JULY 21, 2009

Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it. But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.".

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Research supporters are going crazy over Oklahoma State University stopping anthrax testing on baboons. Tags: universities animal research primarily primates medical research. In addition to the threat of animal "extremists," they are also blaming T.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research. Students training to save babies and small children in emergencies insert breathing tubes and needles into the cats, which are anesthetized during the training and then euthanized, according to HSC officials.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.) All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.

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APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. 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.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Tags: europe animal research drug companies medical research.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Just read an August update from an ALDF lawyer about medical research. But would researchers be willing to share their results? Tags: animal research. I was struck by this paragraph. That's a lot of saved lives. Doubtful if it means endangering their potential patents.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

They want us to keep on funneling billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to the drug companies, the research universities and the suppliers of the animals and the animal testing equipment. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. How stupid do they think we are?

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing.

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MAY 15, 2009

According to the Members of Parliament (MPs), who adopted the report on its first review last week, all planned tests should be subject to mandatory ethical assessments to take into account the concerns of the public on the matter. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research.

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JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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JULY 20, 2009

Testing drugs on animal is unpleasant. There is only one alternative to testing drugs on animals: testing them on humans. That said however, we can all agree that where possible we should reduce usage of animals for experimentation, and that research into ways of doing this should be well funded. No one likes doing it.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics mice medical research. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods.

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JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site. Tags: animal experimentation animal research activism animal rights medical research.

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JULY 7, 2009

This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.

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JULY 25, 2009

This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. She's always talking about Darwin and DNA testing.) Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science.

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