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Your Right to Know: Understanding Animal Experiments in Your Community
Selecting a Facility or Experiment Animals in Education Collecting Information Bringing in the Law |
Great Ape Protection and Cost Saving Act Co-Sponsors
Great Ape Protection and Cost Saving Act Co-Sponsors Updated Jan. 30, 2012 If your congressperson is not on this list, please ask them to co-sponsor the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act > S. 810 Co-Sponsors : 14 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced bill) Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] Sen. Begich, Ma |
Neurological Experiments: Monkey See...But Not Like Humans
Beyond Animal Research By Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H. May 2006 Neurological Experiments: Monkey See...But Not Like Humans Rhesus (or macaque) monkeys are some of the most common animals us |
Survey of Animal Use Pediatrics Training
In 2008, PCRM began a survey of pediatric residency programs in the United States. Because of the large number of facilities involved, the survey is ongoing, but so far the results have been encouraging. See the current results below. Animal Use for the Teaching of Endotracheal Intubation in Pediatric Residency Pro |
Obesity Still Rampant but Rates Leveling
Obesity rates are still extremely high but have leveled for most, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The prevalence of obesity among adults in 2008 was 32.2 percent for men and 35.5 percent for women, up from 27.5 percent for men and 33.4 percent for women in 1999. About 35 pe |
Medical School Curricula with Live Animal Laboratories
Below is a list of U.S. medical schools that still use live animals to teach basic concepts in human physiology, pharmacology, and/or surgery. More than 90 percent of all United States medical schools, including Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, have eliminated these old-fashioned |
Food for Life Diabetes Nutrition and Cooking Classes
The Food for Life Diabetes Nutrition and Cooking Class is a community-based, national program designed by health professionals to aid people with diabetes to learn about the power of food to improve their health and wellness. Upcoming classes >> Launched in 2009, the Food for Life Diabetes Nutrition and |
Former Military Medical Personnel Call for Change
Former Military Medical Personnel Call for Change A Purple Heart recipient who risked his life to save fallen Marines is speaking out against the military’s use of animals in trauma training—and so are many other former military physicians, medics, and nurses. So is a West Point graduate and 20 |
Agriculture and Health Policies in Conflict: How Subsidies Tax our Health: Conclusion and References
Conclusion Current programs that subsidize feed grains or provide direct subsidies and other supports for meat or dairy production are at odds with federal health recommendations. From a public health perspective, altering federal agricultural policies is a key part of addressing the epidemics of obesity |
School Lunches Still Failing to Make the Grade, Say Doctors
WASHINGTON—With schools starting up all over the country, kids have one more thing besides pop quizzes and exams to worry about this fall: school lunches. For the fourth year in a row, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) used its School |
Research Issues Experts
Research Experts | Nutrition Experts | Legal Experts | Legislative Experts Neal D. Barnard, M.D. Full-length bio> PCRM president and founder. Nutrit |
School Lunches Still Fail to Make the Grade
For the fourth year in a row, PCRM used its School Lunch Report Card to analyze the nutritional quality of elementary school lunches served in school districts participating in the USDA’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The NSLP serves more than 28 million |
PCRM Rates Quality of Major Hospital Meals
Hospital Food Keeps Patients Coming Back “Cutting out cholesterol and reducing the amount of fat in your daily diet will reduce the risk of another heart attack,” says a cardiologist to a patient before angioplasty to remove arterial fat deposits. While recovering in the hospital, the same p |
Two Maryland Medical Schools Use and Kill Animals
A scalpel slices through a live pig’s throat. The chest is cracked open. An instructor shocks and manipulates the heart. Ultimately, the animal is killed. This is what animals go through in classes for medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Silver Spring, Md. A trai |
Antibiotic Resistance from Animal Agriculture: Foodborne Illness and Medical Care
A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine September 2011 References 1. Investigation Update: Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O104 (STEC O104:H4) Infections Associated with Travel to Germany. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human |
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