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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest.

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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.

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Costa Rica Opens! What About the Birding?

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. : “For international insurance policies, tourists must request a certification from their insurance company, issued in English or Spanish, verifying at least the following three conditions: Effectiveness of the policy during the visit to Costa Rica.

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Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail

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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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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. To enable this new approach to be developed, the European Commission and companies that are members of the EPAA are working hard to initiate novel methods of research and technology transfer that will reduce the need for animal testing. I just don't understand it.

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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing

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The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. Tags: animal experimentation UK drug companies medical research biotech. experiments were performed on animals last year, a rise of 454,000 or 14% on the previous year, the Home Office said.

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Love in the Time of Conjunctivitis

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Less than 24 hours after receiving medication, the eye that had been swollen shut had opened enough for her to see again. Together they stayed in the bird infirmary for a few weeks while being treated with medicated eye drops and an antibiotic in their drinking water, providing company and comfort to each other.