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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 |
Military Injects Monkeys with Nerve Agent
A monkey shakes violently from his jaws all the way to his hind legs. A large black tattoo reading “I035” stretches along the shaven left side of his twitching torso. He salivates profusely, and a puddle forms around his face. This scene is from a military training video PCRM obtained from the U.S. A |
Metro Swine Flu Ad Urges Government to Shut Down “Flu Farms”
WASHINGTON—A new digital Metro ad points out that "1 in 3 pigs harbors flu viruses" and urges Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to shut down intensive hog farms to reduce swine flu risk. The ad, created by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), made its debut Tuesday, May 12, in t |
Pig ‘Flu Farms’ Threaten Global Health
After dominating the news for weeks, swine flu has started to take a backseat to other concerns. But health officials have not forgotten that the 1918 flu pandemic first appeared as a mild outbreak in the spring and then mutated to the form that infected a third of the world’s population and killed millions o |
PCRM Online | September 2005
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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 |
Swine Flu Ad Urges Government to Shut Down 'Flu Farms'
In May, the World Health Organization announced that it will be several months before a swine flu vaccine is produced. Yet as the swine flu alert hovers at phase 5, just below pandemic level, the likely source of the epidemic—pig farms—continues to put people’s lives in danger. So PCRM is asking t |
National Conference to End Factory Farming: for Health, Environment, and Farm Animals
PCRM’s new “Antibiotic Resistance from Animal Agriculture” report uncovers some of the health-related consequences of factory farming. This month, you can learn more about the dangers of factory farming at the National Conference to End Factory Farming. Elizabeth Kucinich, PCRM’s director of pu |
Document Reveals Waste and Abuse in NASA's Monkey Radiation Experiments
WASHINGTON—NASA's inspector general is being urged to immediately halt NASA-funded experiments that expose live squirrel monkeys to harmful space radiation. Based on in-depth analysis of a previously undisclosed government document, experts with the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) h |
PCRM Urges NASA Inspector General to Block Monkey Experiment
PCRM Urges NASA Inspector General to Block Monkey Experiment A proposed NASA-funded experiment will bombard squirrel monkeys with harmful ionizing radiation to test the dangers of interplanetary travel, according to a government document recently uncovered by PCRM. PCRM physician John Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., and |
Congress Updates America’s Farm Bill
This year, Congress will be renewing the Farm Bill, a massive piece of federal legislation that provides financial assistance to farmers and helps determine what foods are available in schools and nutrition programs. For the past several months, PCRM has been working with members of Congress to make sure that the F |
PCRM Confronts Army’s Chemical Weapons Exercises on Monkeys
The heart rate of monkey #2251-1 skyrocketed to well over 200 beats per minute as he stopped breathing and began to convulse violently. Veterinary technicians had given this vervet monkey a massive dose of a toxic drug to simulate a chemical weapons attack. At Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the Army uses live v |
PCRM Confronts NASA over Monkey Radiation Experiment
PCRM Confronts NASA over Monkey Radiation Experiment PCRM doctors are urging NASA to leave monkeys out of the space race. The space agency recently approved a proposal to conduct radiation studies on live squirrel monkeys. In the planned experiment, researcher Jack Bergman will irradiate squirrel monkeys in an at |
Doctors Call for Sanctuary for NASA Squirrel Monkeys
A group of Massachusetts physicians is asking McLean Hospital to release 10 squirrel monkeys to sanctuaries. The monkeys were slated for NASA’s radiation experiments, which were recently canceled thanks in large part to PCRM’s efforts. In a letter to the president of McLean Hospital near Boston, whe |
Department of Energy Blocks NASA’s Planned Monkey Radiation Experiments
Brookhaven National Laboratory Confirms Cancellation of Space Agency’s $1.75 Million Boondoggle WASHINGTON—NASA’s plan to expose live squirrel monkeys to radiation has been canceled, according to a statement just released by Brookhaven National Laboratory. Administration officials informed the non |
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