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  2. Mar 25, 2025
Nonprofit Science Advocacy Group Calls for Retraction of Intimate Partner Violence Study for Which More Than 100 Young Female Animals Were Strangled and Killed

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national nonprofit medical ethics and health advocacy group of 17,000 physicians, has requested the retraction of a research study published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity for which dozens of adolescent rats were subjected to traumatic brain injuries, inflicted by a metal plate propelled into each animal’s head, then strangled for 90 seconds, and all ultimately killed.

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  2. Mar 25, 2025
Eating Hot Dogs Is Common at Baseball Stadiums, but Many People Don’t Know the Health Risks of Processed Meat

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  2. Mar 14, 2025
Beef Tallow: Doctors Group Shares Consumer Health Alert Warning

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  2. Mar 11, 2025
Swapping Animal Products for Plant-Based Foods—No Matter How Processed—Leads to Weight Loss, Finds New Study

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  2. Mar 11, 2025
Doctors’ Nonprofit Raises Alarm Over Financial Burden and Rising Costs for Patients Ahead of OHSU-Legacy Merger

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  2. Mar 5, 2025
Faith, Food, and Health Plant-Based Cooking Classes Celebrate Interfaith Holiday Season

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  2. Mar 4, 2025
Nearly 90% of U.S. Adults Believe Inaccurately That It’s Important to Eat Animal Products to Get Adequate Protein

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  2. Feb 19, 2025
Doctors Demand Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Panel Update ‘Outdated and Misleading’ Milk Recommendation

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  2. Feb 18, 2025
The Physicians Committee Invites Farmers to Apply for Farm Transition Grants of $15,000

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  2. Feb 13, 2025
Organ Transplants From Different Species Risky and Costly, New Paper Argues

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