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Priorities for Research in Spinal Cord Injury
Priorities for Research in Spinal Cord Injury Research on spinal cord injuries aims to prevent, minimize, or repair neural tissue damage, reduce the sequelae of injury, and improve function. While animals have been used by a number of investigators, other avenues of resear |
Spinal Cord Injury Experiments on Animals
Beyond Animal Research By Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H. May 2005 Spinal Cord Injury Experiments on Animals Every year, approximately 10,000 people in the United States suffer |
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 |
Cure for Spinal Cord Injury Hampered by Animal Models
Christopher Reeve’s tragic accident in 1995, which left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, highlighted the desperate need for a cure for spinal cord injury. But a new study reveals that scientists may be significantly sidetracked by their reliance on animal experiments. A com |
Spinal Cord Injury Research Hampered by Animal Models, Says New Study
Washington—Research on traumatic spinal cord injuries is hampered by a reliance on animal experiments that don’t accurately predict human outcomes, says a new study in the upcoming edition of the peer-reviewed journal Reviews in the Neurosciences. The review was written by scientists with the Physicians |
PCRM Study Exposes Problems with Spinal Cord Injury Experiments on Animals
A new PCRM study explores the reasons why animal experiments in spinal cord injury do not accurately predict human outcomes. “Animal Models in Spinal Cord Injury: A Review” appears this April in the peer-reviewed journal Reviews in the Neurosciences. It was written by PCRM scientists Aysha Akhtar, M.D., |
How You Can Help Reform the March of Dimes
1. Tell other people about the March of Dimes! Most people are not aware that the charity wastes their charitable donations on cruel and useless experimentation. One way you can easily raise awareness is to write letters: to the editor, to a celebrity spokesperson, and/or to any company in your community that suppor |
PCRM Brings Lawsuit against Ohio State’s “Cruelty 101”
PCRM has stepped up its campaign against one of the cruelest laboratory courses ever devised—the Spinal Cord Injury Techniques course at Ohio State University, sometimes called “Cruelty 101.” The course requires students to expose the spinal cords of mice and |
A Hero’s Hope: Nonanimal Research Is Best Way to Keep Reeve’s Dream Alive
By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. In the movies, he was the Man of Steel. In real life, Christopher Reeve displayed nearly superhuman courage in the face of a tragic spinal cord injury. But determination doesn’t always carry the day. Reeve’s re |
OSU's Spinal Cord Injury Course Draws Criticism from Neurosurgeons and Neurologists Across the Country
Columbus, Ohio—300 neurologists and neurosurgeons have signed a petition seeking the elimination of an Ohio State University course in which students cause severe spinal cord injury in small animals. One of the neurologists, Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H., of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCR |
'Walk Again' Warning
By Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H. February 25, 2006 This letter was published in New Scientist. As a researcher and a neurologist who has cared for patients with spinal cord injuries, I applaud most scientific efforts that help us better understand these injuries, but I do not expect that data from animal experiments |
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions Animal Welfare 1. Does the March of Dimes still fund shocking animal experiments? 2. Is there any evidence for the poor treatment of animals in March of Dimes experiments? 3. How can there be any pain or suffe |
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 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 |
Research
Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act Support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (H.R. 1513/S. 810), which would phase out invasive experiments on chimpanzees and release all federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. Take Act |
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