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...
November 8, 2012 International Performers Visit Teaneck & EnglewoodSharon Katz & The Peace Train – South Africa’s Cultural AmbassadorsNovember 29th & 30th, 2012 give workshops to students in our schoolsANDSpecial Peace Train Youth Summit 7pm Friday November 30th at Puffin Cultural Forum Sharon Katz, founder of The Peace Train in South Africa in 1992...
Get Yourself Registered!Reserve Your Spot for the Food Sovereignty Summit It’s all coming together nicely! First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin (Oneida) again are co-hosting the national Food Sovereignty Summit. It will be held September 23-26, 2019, at the Radisson Hotel in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Summit agenda is...
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...