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Ohio State University: A Year of Cruelty
Ohio State University (OSU) has had a year riddled with incidents of animal cruelty and neglect. Despite widespread opposition from physicians, neurologists, animal protection advocates, and disability activists, OSU refused to cancel its three-week spinal cord injury course, nicknamed “Cruelty 101.” I |
PCRM Spinal Injury Campaign Forges Ahead: How You Can Help
Although animal experiments have done little to help people suffering from spinal cord injuries, Ohio State University continues to promote more of the same, in one of the cruelest classroom exercises ever devised. Last summer, PCRM research staff discovered |
NIH to Investigate OSU's Inhumane Spinal Injury Techniques Courses
WASHINGTON—The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has notified the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) that it will investigate charges by PCRM that Ohio State University has violated federal animal welfare regulations as part of its controversial Spinal Cord Injury Techniques Training Cour |
PCRM Group Files Suit in Ohio Supreme Court Over OSU's
COLUMBUS, Ohio—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed suit today in Ohio Supreme Court seeking to force Ohio State University to release photographs and video- and audiotape footage of its controversial Spinal Cord Injury Techniques Training Course. PCRM has sued for release of the ma |
Another Vet School Ends Terminal Surgeries
Oklahoma State University recently joined the growing list of veterinary schools that have dropped terminal surgeries from their curricula. Students in an Oklahoma State University (OSU) veterinary surgery laboratory previously practiced two surgical procedures on dogs from Class B dealers. The dogs were killed a |
More Animals Die Because of Negligence at Ohio State University
A recent power outage at Ohio State University in mid-July resulted in the deaths of almost 700 animals, including mice, rats, and rabbits. A backup generator failed to provide air conditioning, and temperatures in the laboratories rose to over 105 degrees for sever |
Spinal Cord Injury: Nonanimal Research Shows Great Promise
By Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H. Imagine that you are drugged with an anesthetic. You are strapped face down to a device. Your skin and back muscle are cut away, a section of your bony spine is removed, and a machine drops a seven-pound weight onto your exposed spinal cord. You |
Mobile Billboard Opposing “Cruelty 101” Circles Fiesta Bowl
Ohio State University officials were met by more than just cheering fans when they arrived in Tempe, Ariz., to support the school’s football team at the Fiesta Bowl. As crowds gathered for the game, a mobile billboard opposing OSU’s cruel spinal cord injury |
PCRM Doctors Deliver “Cruelty 101” Petitions to OSU Board
More than 300 neurologists and neurosurgeons asked Ohio State University officials to implement alternatives to an inhumane spinal cord injury course in petitions delivered to OSU President Karen Holbrook at the school’s February 1 board of trustees meeting. Neurologi |
PCRM Online | February 2006
February 2006 Physicians Committee for Respon |
Humane Loan Programs
Many organizations will loan computer programs, videos, charts, models, and other dissection alternatives to schools at no cost: The American Anti-Vivisection Society offers the Animalearn Science Bank, a vast resource of dissection alternatives for everything from frogs to cats to grasshoppers. The Humane Society of |
What are the Alternatives?
Many organizations will loan computer programs, videos, charts, models, and other dissection alternatives to schools at no cost: The American Anti-Vivisection Society offers the Animalearn Science Bank, a vast resource of dissection alternatives for everything from frogs to cats to grasshoppers. The Humane Society of |
Volunteer with PCRM to Encourage Healthy Nutrition
1. Distribute our Vegetarian Starter Kit to your friends, family, and community. Leave our Vegetarian Starter Kit at your local library, community center, food co-op, or place of worship. You may have to ask permission to do this, but many places w |
Mobile Billboard Circles Fiesta Bowl Urging OSU President Karen Holbrook to Cancel
TEMPE, Ariz.—In town to cheer on the Buckeyes at the Fiesta Bowl, Ohio State University president Karen Holbrook will be confronted by opposition to OSU's controversial spinal cord injury course. A mobile billboard sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine featuring a picture of a rat an |
A Victory for Ethical Research: OSU Researcher Michael Podell Calls It Quits
“I was greatly relieved to learn that OSU’s pointless cat experiments were halted due to the efforts of PCRM and others. As a participant in Johns Hopkins’ SHARE study (Study to Help AIDS Research Effort) for 18 years, I have seen firsthand that human, epidemiological research is the only reaso |
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