Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
Tags: animal research medical ethics medical research. Here's a scathing overview in Primate Freedom of the new organization "Pro-Test," an organization of animal researchers who want to advocate for their work. Long and impressive expose.
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2010
Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 24, 2009
I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics mice medical research. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods.
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. 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. We as a movement cannot compartamentalize.
Critter News
MAY 15, 2009
If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research.
Critter News
JULY 20, 2009
Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical ethics medical research. Why are rapists and pedophiles given dignity and respect when animals, who are innocent, denied the same? It's all effed up to me. But at least I'm following bluegenes' advice and questioning everything.
Critter News
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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