Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...
What do you know about our modern era of brands and product testing on animals? Animal testing was once a routine part of product safety measures, particularly in the beauty industry. But is this ...
The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...
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Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...
In April, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 85 into law, which requires health-related research facilities to put test dogs and cats up for adoption before euthanizing them when they're ...
For decades, preclinical testing in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates has been a crucial part of drug development, an important although not infallible way to ensure some measure of safety for human ...
The FDA’s emerging framework represents more than a regulatory update; it is a paradigm shift toward human-relevant, science-forward drug development. By reducing reliance on animal models and ...
Drugs have been tested on animals for over a century, but new technology may one day eliminate the need to do so. Congress and the FDA are pushing pharmaceutical companies to replace animals with ...
The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...
The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...