An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Animal experiments are ...

Throughout ‘the year of the election’ – as 2024 was widely known – we were working with politicians and decision-makers to ...

The National Institutes of Health, under President Joe Biden, has spent millions of dollars funding experiments where ... to cutting federally funded animal testing. Musk’s medical device ...

Animal experiments – such as the Lethal Dose 50% test (LD50) – are cruel, outdated and scientifically unreliable. Thankfully there are now more advanced ways to test the toxicity of substances without ...

Animals have also been key to tests on semaglutide (the active ingredient in weight-loss jabs Wegovy and Ozempic), with experiments on ... says Chris Magee, head of policy at Understanding Animal ...

Thousands of animals have been subjected to experiments involving explosions, poisoning, and nerve agents at the top-secret Porton Down laboratory. Freedom of Information figures obtained by ...

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A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as well as rabbits and chickens. A global crackdown on fentanyl has led ...

The experiments, funded by pharmaceutical companies and government programs, were approved by the lab's internal Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). However, critics argue the ...