Scientists have warned that drug companies are putting profits ahead of medical discoveries, and that they have spent the last decade developing drugs that have produced little benefit and caused considerable harm.
Posted 08 Aug 2012
A proposal for the introduction of CCTV cameras in animal research establishments, to monitor the care of animals, is under consideration by the Home Office. The plan has already been discussed at three recent meetings...
Posted 12 Jul 2012
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3billion (£1.9billion) for withholding data about its drugs, illegally marketing its products, and bribing doctors to prescribe potentially dangerous medicines.
Posted 03 Jul 2012
As the Queen approaches her Diamond Jubilee, Animal Aid is calling on the Sovereign to relinquish her position as patron of Cancer Research UK, a charity that funds a large amount of cruel and medically...
Posted 31 May 2012
The government yesterday (May 17th) made clear how it intends to translate into domestic legislation a new European Directive governing the conduct of animal experiments across the European Union. The government’s plans were laid out...
Posted 18 May 2012
A year has gone by since the last World Day rally in Manchester. During that time, I have read many scientific papers and articles detailing the short lives and deaths of hundreds of animals. Something...
Posted 30 Apr 2012
Medical research charities that fund animal experiments are keen for the public not to discover their true objectives with regard to the protection of animals in laboratories. Whilst stating publicly that welfare standards should be...
Posted 12 Mar 2012
Tamoxifen (Paragraphs in italics are extracted from CRUK’s letter) ‘Tamoxifen is one of the most successful anti-cancer drugs in current use, and it is estimated to have saved the lives of over 400,000 women worldwide…’...
Posted 14 Feb 2012
In reply to a recent enquiry from an Animal Aid supporter, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) offered three examples of ‘how the use of animals in our research has resulted in life saving scientific progress’, and...
Posted 14 Feb 2012
Today’s national newspapers carried (often uncritical) reports of the birth of two macaque monkeys, whose genetic material originates from six ‘parents’. Known as chimeras, for each monkey, diverse parent cells were brought together to create...
Posted 06 Jan 2012