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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. But a group of trustees got together, determined she was mentally unfit at the time, and decided to “responsibly” donate to medical research instead. It’s more money for medical research. To human causes. I think that just sucks.

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Defending Laboratory Rats

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Nice article about people who are committed to defending "lab rats" used for medical research. You see people shut down if you talk about how a rat can suffer," says Chad Sandusky, director of toxicology and research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that fights for animal rights and advocates vegetarianism.

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

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The EPAA was created in 2005 and is an unprecedented collaboration between science and industry to reduce animal suffering in scientific tests. Tags: europe animal research drug companies medical research. The aims of the EPAA are based on the '3Rs' of replacement, reduction and refinement.

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Millions of Animals Used in EU Experiments

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My personal philosophy is that millions of animals shouldn't suffer on anyone's behalf, especially when they do so against their will. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research.

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University of Iowa Animal Lab Goes Underground

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The 35,000-square-foot facility would connect the Medical Education Research Facility and Carver Biomedical Research Building on the west side of campus. Poor, poor long-suffering animal researchers. Tags: universities animal research animal laboratories. The Iowa Board of Regents approved $11.2 They only want to help people.as

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NASA Funds Radiation Experiments on Monkeys

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The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., If we are going to subject animals to great suffering (radiation for heaven's sake), don't let it be for something like this. Tags: animal experimentation NASA. This is so frigging frivolous.

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PETA Petition to Stop Animal Torture at Defense Department

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Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries. Tags: animal research animal cruelty military Obama PETA.

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