Posted on July 25, 2008 by speakingofresearch
I thought I’d dedicate an entire post to a certain statistic which has been repeatedly misused and misunderstood by animal rights groups.
92% of drugs that test successfully in animals fail during human trials
You will find animal rights organizations, such as PETA [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by speakingofresearch
Americans for Medical Progress, whom Speaking of Research works side by side with, have just released a fantastic new DVD which looks at the impact of animal research on veterinary medicine.
The DVD follows four veterinarians; Marilyn Brown, Arnold Goldman, Lisa Portnoy and John Young, who lent their thoughts, hearts and voices in order to explore [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2008 by speakingofresearch
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disease that affects about one in every 4,000 males born in the USA. It is caused by mutations in the DMD gene that lead to the protein dystrophin being either absent or faulty, which leads to muscle cell death, progressive muscle wasting and early death, with few patients [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by speakingofresearch
We are sorry to learn of the death of Dr. Michael DeBakey. DeBakey was a world-renowned heard surgeon who developed the roller pump, an essential component of the life-saving heart lung machine (used during Cardiopulmonary Bypass) which propels the blood through the tubing. His pioneering work in the field of cardiology later led him to [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2008 by speakingofresearch
It seems Peta is running out of news lately - so its front page has decided to bring back the story of mistreatment of animals at Oregon National Primate Research Center - a story which turned out to be completely false when the USDA investigated. Want proof? Here’s the USDA report giving ONPRC a clean [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2008 by speakingofresearch
I recently gave a speech at the International Conference for Animal Research Policy, in it I laid out three challenges for the upcoming months. We’ve all heard of the 3R’s, so this is the 3ES’s:
Enabling Scientists
Encouraging Students
Educating Schoolchildren
We must enable scientists by providing them with an outlet to talk about their work. In Britain animals [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by speakingofresearch
A new website created by the RDS has been launched a couple of days ago. Animalresearch.info allows scientists to make their own contributions (subject to moderation) to add to the already vast repository of information on “the contribution of animal research to medical science“.
The website offers in-depth information on Nobel Prize winners, drug developments in [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by speakingofresearch
In the news today there have been reports that laquinimod, a new drug developed to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), has performed well in an early (Phase IIb) (1). An MS patient’s immune system attacks their central nervous system, leading to impaired communication in the nervous system and finally to physical and cognitive disability. A key [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by speakingofresearch
Yesterday in Helsinki Professor Robert Langer was awarded the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize for his work on intelligent drug delivery. The Millennium Technology Prize is the world’s largest award for technological innovation and is considered by some to be the unofficial Nobel Prize for technology*. Prof. Langer was up against some very strong competition for [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by speakingofresearch
“Americans are living longer, healthier lives and we owe much of that success to biomedical research,” said Robert Palazzo, Ph.D, President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). This comes after the CDC announcement that US life expectancy has surpassed 78 years for the first time.
Declines in death rates for [...]
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