The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...

There’s no scientific basis for the view that lab dogs are inherently different from pets, or that they were somehow not ...

A national doctors group is applauding Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, ...

Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of pet cats and dogs — the point being that these distinctions ...

The animal rights group PETA has reported allegations of animal mistreatment at UMass Chan Medical School to state and ...

Beagles are often used in laboratory animal testing. They are considered balanced, friendly to humans, and able to endure a lot. PETBOOK reports on the suffering they endure and what happens to the ...

The Trump administration is receiving an outpouring of support from animal advocacy groups, lawmakers and others for recent announcements to end animal testing within programs at the FDA and EPA.

As a physician, researcher and dog lover — and someone who once reluctantly experimented on dogs — I believe that a new investigation of Department of Defense animal testing highlights the need for ...

At over $20 billion a year, the U.S. government is the country’s single largest funder of wasteful and cruel animal testing. The bad news: Uncle Sam is still killing perfectly healthy animals when ...

Kaplan is the author of “Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research.” We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy — my beagle, who was once a lab dog ...