An investigation by the Wales on Sunday newspaper has revealed that animal experiments at Cardiff University have risen by 13% since 2006. In the past four years, the University used more than 190,000 animals in...
Posted 11 Aug 2010
New figures have revealed that three people a day die from the side effects of medicines they have been prescribed.
Posted 14 Jun 2010
More than 90 per cent of scientists who backed a drug at the centre of a safety scare had financial links to the pharmaceutical industry, and 87 per cent had financial links with the drug's...
Posted 19 Mar 2010
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) was unveiled in draft form this week by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM provides diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, and...
Posted 12 Feb 2010
On Sunday, details emerged concerning shocking experiments being conducted on live pigs at Porton Down, a secretive military research centre in Wiltshire. In a series of tests, 18 live pigs were placed just a few...
Posted 25 Jan 2010
The world’s largest drugs company, Pfizer, has been fined a record sum for making false claims about four prescription medicines.
Posted 03 Sep 2009
The world’s largest drugs company, Pfizer, has been fined a record sum for making false claims about four prescription medicines. The company pleaded guilty to the charge and is paying a criminal fine of $1.3bn...
Posted 03 Sep 2009
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has reported that, on 24 July 2009, the European Commission announced the adoption of a non-animal alternative to the cruel Draize test. Every year, some 10,000 animals...
Posted 24 Jul 2009
The number of medical experiments involving animals has shown its largest rise since modern records began in 1986. The official government explanation for this massive increase in animal use, is an expansion in biomedical research...
Posted 23 Jul 2009
The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has paid out £50m in a lawsuit relating to a drug trial it conducted on children in Nigeria in 1996.
Posted 06 Apr 2009