KALAMAZOO, Mich.—With a federal complaint and billboards, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national medical ethics nonprofit, is determined to see WMed stop using animals to train doctors. The Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine sends emergency medicine residents to Charles River Laboratories in Mattawan to perform...
PORTLAND—With a billboard designed by a local artist, a national medical ethics and education group is pointing out that some things are too weird “even for Portland.” The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine also sent a letter today from more than 500 doctors to Oregon Health and Science University president Danny Jacobs, MD, urging him to replace animals...
SAN ANGELO, Texas —Tom Green County District Court Judge Barbara L. Walther ruled today, July 11, 2024, that Angelo State University must release public records relating to an experiment conducted on dozens of mice that resulted in the animals’ unnecessary suffering and death, reportedly to study the impact of the foster care system on human children. The ruling...
Anchoring the boat in a sandbar, research scientist Morgan Gilmour steps into the shallows and is immediately surrounded by sharks. The warm waters around the tropical island act as a reef shark nursery, and these baby biters are curious about the newcomer. They zoom close and veer away at the last minute, as Gilmour slowly makes her way toward the kaleidoscope of...
DENVER—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit with more than 17,000 physician members, is in Denver this week to demand an end to what it says is an “unjustifiable” practice: the deadly use of live pigs for surgery training at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The medical ethics group is even offering to foot the bill for an...
DURHAM, N.C.—In a letter sent today to Duke, 552 physicians are urging the university to halt the controversial practice of using and killing animals to train medical students. The letter, spearheaded by the national medical ethics group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, points out that no other medical school in the United States or Canada is known to...
DURHAM, N.C.—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is congratulating Duke University for ending the controversial practice of using live animals to teach surgical procedures to medical students. The decision comes after 556 physicians from across the country wrote to the dean of Duke’s school of medicine on Feb. 2, urging her to join all other U.S. and...