“Living Cadavers” Replace Living Animals in Surgery Training
The replacement of live animal models with alternatives is an encouraging recent trend in medical education.
Please see the below articles about Animals in Laboratories from past editions of the AWI Quarterly.
Class B Dealers Unnecessary, National Academy of Sciences Tells NIH
In what the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) hopes will be the death knell for this cruel cottage industry, a National Academy of Sciences Committee report released on May 29 and funded by the National Institutes...
Tickled Pink
Sylvie Cloutier, Ph.D., and Ruth C. Newberry, Ph.D., present playful handling as social enrichment for laboratory rats When animals are used in research,there is seldom, if ever, a focus on affectionate or playful handling. However...
Random Source Dog and Cat Dealers Under the Microscope
Although no action was taken on the Pet Safety and Protection Act in the last Congress, the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill and the FARM bill were adopted; both include language regarding random...