Critter News
AUGUST 13, 2009
It's the best way to train medical personnel. Tags: animal research military pigs. The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Read and decide for yourself.
Critter News
APRIL 19, 2012
I knew the military in general used animals for combat medical practice.hadn't thought of the Coast Guard though. Live anesthetized goats have been used in Coast Guard training to treat combat wounds, but the agency could not verify if the video involved its personnel. PETA leads the charge against the Coast Guard.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Here's a succinct letter to the editor that summarizes the emotional blackmail propogated by animal researchers. The million dollar ad campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research (“Critical research,” Nov. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. From the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA.
Critter News
APRIL 18, 2010
Only one of the interesting points in this opinion piece on animal research by Lee Schneider on the Huffington Post. Only three accredited medical schools in the whole country use animals to teach surgery. Tags: University of Tennessee animal research Uniformed Services University Johns Hopkins University.
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2009
The warning cited three errors in veterinary care, including a serious 2007 incident where a pregnant monkey died when a researcher failed to notice she was having a troubled labor. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. A national physicians group has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, saying its use of ferrets to train medical residents in emergency procedures on babies and children violates a federal animal-welfare law. News to me.
Critter News
JUNE 29, 2009
The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research.
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