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The Ethics and Reality of Animal Testing in Modern Medicine

Animal testing has shaped medicine for decades. Discover new alternatives, changing laws, and the future of humane science.
The Scientist

FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing. Will That Work?

In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new roadmap that aims to replace animal testing in the development of new drugs with more human-relevant methods. The goal is ...
Los Angeles Times

Animal testing slows medical progress. It wastes money. It’s wrong

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CNN

The push to end animal testing is gaining steam, but technology can’t fill the gap yet

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...

Other countries are looking to end animal testing. In Canada, there's a holdup

Other countries, like the U.K, the United States and the European Union have all dedicated funding and detailed roadmaps to ...