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The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
Reaching for Personhood
By Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D. This op-ed was published May 16, 2007, in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram It’s a civil rights case with a twist. In late April, an Austrian judge denied personhood status and legal guardianship for 26-year-old Matthias Pan, who was kidnapped as an infant in Sierra Leone after his mot |
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RESEARCH ETHICS By Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H., and John J. Pippin, M.D. ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL RESEARCH Chimp Genome Project Shows Tiny Difference Makes All the Difference Employing the results of the recently completed Chimp Genome Sequencing Project, researchers a |
Chimps Used in Experiments Develop Psychological Disorders
Chimpanzees are humankind’s closest relatives. They share much of our DNA and, like us, have complex social relationships and suffer physical and mental pain. PCRM scientists recently confirmed that many chimps formerly used in experimental research display behaviors very similar to the signs of post-traumat |
National Chimpanzee Call-In Week Resources
It's National Call-In Week for Chimpanzees in Laboratories. Please call your members of Congress today, and ask them to co-sponsor the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (S. 810/H.R. 1513), which will end painful experiments on chimpanzees. Please use the following re |
2000 Year in Review
RESEARCH ISSUES On Capitol Hill PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., and research coordinator Andy Breslin provided in-depth critiques of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) High Production Volume Challenge, a massive animal |
Chimps Outperform Humans in Memory Tests
New research shows that chimpanzees have memory powers that are far beyond those of humans. Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan tested 12 students and three chimps who had been taught the numbers one through nine. A computer screen displayed nine numbers, which were obscured with white squares after the partic |
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RESEARCH ETHICS By Kristie Stoick, M.P.H., and John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL RESEARCH EPA and NIH Aim to Move Away from Animal Tests Government regulators are taking a huge step away from animal testing. As we repo |
Doctors Weigh in on
WASHINGTON—Doctors and dietitians with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are available for interviews on two major nutrition stories—a cover article in yesterday's New York Times Magazine about the Atkins Diet and |
Good Medicine Magazine: Expelled! Processed Meats Cause Cancer: So Why Do Schools Feed Them to Children?
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