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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 |
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: An Overview
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: An Overview EXTENT, COST, and TYPES of ANIMALS USED The March of Dimes does not report the number of animals used per year. The March of Dimes uses many different species of animals, including primates, cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, hamsters, fe |
Replacing Animals in Medical Education
When Jennifer Dankle entered Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1997, she had no idea she was supposed to cut open live dogs as part of her training. Then she walked past a school laboratory one day and heard the animals barking. Other students told her the dogs were kept in small cages for |
PCRM Petitions Department of Defense to End Live Animal Use
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md., is the country’s only military medical school—and it’s also one of the only schools that continues to use and kill live animals in medical student education. PCRM ramped up its campaign to reform medical education a |
PCRM Calls on Military to End Animal Use in Medical Education
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., is the country’s only military medical school—and it’s also one of the last schools in the nation still using and killing live animals in medical student education. This summer, PCRM filed a petition for enforcement with t |
Anything But Routine
By Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D. When King Kong grasped Fay Wray in his enormous hand in the 1933 science fiction classic, the victim screamed and struggled in terror. If one could have measured the writhing heroine’s heart rate, blood pressure, and blood levels of cort |
Two More Medical Schools End Live Animal Labs
Two more medical schools have eliminated live animal laboratories from their curricula. This spring, PCRM received a letter from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University announcing the school’s decision to stop using live pigs in its third-year surgery clerkship lab. Brody’s decision, |
Victory! OU Medical Center Ends Animal Use
The University of Oklahoma Medical Center just confirmed to PCRM that it has stopped killing goats in its trauma training course and now employs nonanimal training methods. But sheep at Massachusetts General Hospital still need your help. Despite thousands of messages from people like you, the hospital killed sheep |
PCRM Online Archive
February 2012: Read this issue> Watch James Franco and Kevin Nealon Pledge to Save Chimpanzees; Paula Deen Has Diabetes, PCRM Offers Help; Bob Barker Asks University of Virginia to End Cruel Use of Live Cats; Chinese-Language 21-Day Healthy Challenge Begins March 5; Cheese Billboards Highlight Obesity Risk; Feb. 10 |
The Use of Animals for Physiology Instruction at the Medical College of Wisconsin
A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. October 11, 2006 (Revised December 20, 2007) I. Executive summary Twenty years ago, live dogs, cats, pigs and other animals were commonly used in physiology, pharmacology, and surgery courses at medical schools. A sta |
Debate Heats Up over Dogs Killed in Medical Training
WASHINGTON—The debate over use of dogs and other live animals in medical training is heating up nationally as medical students are making their choices for the coming semester, and supporters of nonlethal alternatives are stepping up their outreach. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is |
Des Moines University Clings to Archaic 'Dog Labs'
© 2001, PHOTODISC At Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center (DMU), second-year medical students participate in a lab that involves a variety of surgical procedures including cutting off and reattaching the nipples of healthy dogs, who are later killed. In response, a Des Moines lawyer h |
Stepping Up Efforts to End Live Animal Labs at Johns Hopkins
More than 90 percent of U.S. medical schools have stopped using live animals to teach medical students the basics of physiology, pharmacology, and surgery. So why is Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine—a top-ranked U.S. medical school—still offering live animal labs? PCRM member physicians have |
PCRM Ramps Up Live Animal Lab Campaign, Launches New Whistleblower Hotline
Now that more than 90 percent of medical schools have replaced live animal labs with the many effective and humane alternatives, PCRM is focusing even more attention on the 10 schools that cling to the outmoded and cruel labs. In January, senior medical and research adviser John Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., and PCRM&rs |
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