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Leona Helmsley's Fortune Goes to Medical Research

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Over $100 million went to medical research while about $1 million went to animal welfare causes. Actually, less than $1 million dollars went to animal welfare because a portion went to guide dog associations and that is human welfare as far as I’m concerned.) It’s more money for medical research. To human causes.

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Some Groups that Still Support Animal Research

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Tags: animal research medical research. Komen Foundation *British Heart Foundation *World Cancer Research Fund I can't tell you all what I do for a living because it's kind of sensitive, but let's just say that my unit has had dealings with Susan G. Komen and they are a pretty arrogant, corporate bunch (just an FYI!).

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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. Budkie, SAEN executive director. "If

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Scientist Advocacy Group Oppose Some Animal Testing

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Here's a group I've never heard of. I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.

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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

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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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Beagles Rescued from Bankrupt Lab

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One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. Best Friends Animal Society headquartered in Kanab, Utah, and Pets Alive Animal Sanctuary, based in Middletown, N.Y., and Elmsford, N.Y.,

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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More

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The two parties settled in a lawsuit filed by the advocacy group four years ago after the group were unable to obtain information they requested. Tags: animal experimentation animal research humane society USDA medical research.