Arizona Daily Wildcat

Animal testing necessary in medical research

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

RFK Jr. says he'll work with federal agencies to wind down animal testing

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...
Opinion
Physicians Committee for Responsible MedicineOpinion

Making Animal Experiments the Exception: The Physicians Committee’s Road to FDA Reform

In April 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies—a landmark initiative that lays out a plan to make animal ...
The Virginian-Pilot

EVMS found to have made ‘critical’ violations in animal testing research

Animal testing done at Eastern Virginia Medical School was found to have made two critical-level violations of the Animal Welfare Act in a January federal inspection. The U.S. Department of ...
The Virginian-Pilot

USDA issues warning to Norfolk-based medical school over animal testing

The United States Department of Agriculture has sent a warning to the Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University alleging research done in years prior using animals violated the Animal ...
The Hill

Cutting animal testing will jeopardize human health

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

3D bioprinting offers alternative to animal testing for skin disease research

At TU Wien, researchers are developing three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques that can be used to create living ...
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Animal research and testing brings millions to CT each year. That could change drastically.

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...
fox6now

Feds push animal testing alternatives; Wisconsin laboratory leads the way

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...
Taipei Times

Program strives to get rid of animal medical testing

The program subsidizes schools to develop courses on non-animal alternative models, including 3D mapping, digital imaging, ...
PopSugar

Animal Testing Is (Still) the Beauty Industry's Ugliest Secret

During an interview with a cosmetic chemist, I was shocked when they told me that "cruelty-free is just a marketing tactic; animal testing does not exist in the industry anymore." They did cite ...
USA Today

Animal testing no longer required for drug approval. But high-tech substitutes aren't ready.

For generations people have associated the terms "lab rat" and "guinea pig" with scientific research. Animal testing remains a standard and has been required for drug approval. Just before Christmas, ...