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Food for Life: Healthy Eating and Cooking to Beat Diabetes in Indian Country
Welcome! This is the home of curriculum materials for a unique nutrition education program designed to address the epidemic of type 2 diabetes among Native Americans. Research conducted by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and many other research teams has demonstrated the power of plant-base |
Ethics in Trauma Training
The use of live animals in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses was once common. Today, however, the vast majority of these courses use nonanimal teaching tools. Background on ATLS ATLS courses teach procedures designed to respond to acute trauma injuries. These procedures include cricothyroidotomy (an |
Chemical Testing Resources
Chemical Testing Resources PCRM Fact Sheets and Publications | Links | Scientific Articles PCRM Fact Sheets and Publications PCRM Testimony before the Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health Subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Assessing the Safe Chemicals Act, |
Disappearing Act
Disappearing Act Download PDF: Full Page - Color Half Page Horizontal - Color Two Thirds Page - Color One Third Square - Color One Third Vertical - Color One S |
Meet Some of the Lost or Surrendered Dogs Who Were Used and Killed at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (U-M) continues to use dogs from Michigan shelters in its Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course. Notorious Class B dealer R&R Research sells dogs to U-M. Learn more about how these dogs are sold to U-M and help us end the use of animals in U-M’s ATLS course. |
This Is No Dummy: With Advanced Human Simulators for Medical Training, Why Harm Animals?
Good emergency medical skills can literally mean the difference between life and death. That’s why it’s so important that health care professionals who use these skills receive the best training available. Many physicians, medical students, and emergency responders go through a crucial training program |
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 |
Victory in Alabama! Simulator Replaces Live Pigs in Trauma Training Course
Independence Day came early this year for pigs in Alabama. Just four days after PCRM wrote to ask the University of South Alabama to stop killing pigs in its trauma training course, the university contacted PCRM to learn about superior nonanimal training methods. In the latest course, instructors used the TraumaMan |
Prescription for Health
Finally! A prescription with side effects you want. Download PDF: Full page - Color Half page horizontal -Color Digest - Color Plug - Color One third vertical - Color Two thirds vertical - Color 2.125 x 2 - B&W 2.125 x 5.25 - B&W 3.75 x 3 - B&W 3.75 |
Surrendered Pet Dogs Killed in Trauma Training at University of Michigan, Live Pigs Killed in Fargo, N.D.
As recently as September, live dogs from shelters were cut open by physicians practicing emergency medical procedures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. And on Feb. 2, live pigs were unlawfully killed after undergoing the same thing at MeritCare Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. After both Advanced Trauma Lif |
Two More Trauma Training Courses Go Animal Free
The University of Oklahoma Medical Center and the University of South Alabama both recently announced that they have stopped using animals for trauma training. These facilities join the vast majority of United States trauma training programs, which use only nonanimal methods. Last year, PCRM filed a complaint wit |
You Helped End Pig Deaths at University of Massachusetts
More than 10,000 of you contacted the University of Massachusetts Medical School and urged its dean to end the school’s deadly use of pigs in trauma training courses. He listened. The dean committed to permanently ending animal use in the school’s Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses—and h |
Pigs Killed in North Dakota Trauma Training Course
April was a cruel month for pigs. At North Dakota State University, live pigs were unlawfully killed after they were subjected to the trauma of confinement and experimentation. But you can end this unnecessary cruelty. Join PCRM in asking the university to end animal use in its Advanced Trauma Life Support course t |
University of Michigan Ends Use of Dogs in ATLS Class
The University of Michigan has ended the use of live dogs in its Advanced Trauma Life Support course, according to a university statement released Thursday afternoon. The school deserves tremendous credit for moving to nonanimal training tools, according to PCRM cardiologist John Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. In the pa |
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 |
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