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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 |
Agriculture and Health Policies in Conflict: How Subsidies Tax our Health: Conclusion and References
Conclusion Current programs that subsidize feed grains or provide direct subsidies and other supports for meat or dairy production are at odds with federal health recommendations. From a public health perspective, altering federal agricultural policies is a key part of addressing the epidemics of obesity |
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 |
New Dietary Guidelines Could Save Lives
By Susan Levin, M.S., R.D. This opinion piece was printed in The Denver Post on Feb. 6, 2011. Every five years since 1980, the government has given the American public nutrition advice by updating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. And every year since then, Americans have become markedly more overweight. But |
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a nonprofit organization working toward compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion. For the last 26 years, PCRM has led the way for reforms of federal nutrition policies, and our clinical research programs are breaking new ground in |
PCRM Online | September 2007
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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 |
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