EC plans for drug ‘advertising’ shelved
A controversial European Commision proposal to allow drug companies to communicate directly with patients, which was due to be presented this week, has been postponed indefinitely.
Posted 31 Oct 2008
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‘Wonder’ drug withdrawn
Just four years ago, Acomplia was hailed in the national press as a wonder slimming pill. Now it has been withdrawn by the authorities because of a high risk of serious psychiatric disorders leading, in...
Posted 24 Oct 2008
MAKING A KILLING: Major new report exposes how drug industry greed harms people and animals
National campaign group Animal Aid today (September 3) calls on government to crack down on drug industry practices that put profits before all else.
Posted 03 Sep 2008
Researchers condemn animal tests as unreliable
Scientists have spoken out against the reliability of animal tests in two separate instances this week.
Posted 15 Aug 2008
A news release from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, dated 30 July 2008
Psychiatric Disorders in Chimps Subjected to Lab Experiments Parallel Those in Human Torture Survivors, Study Finds American Physician Presents Data at the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society in Edinburgh; Findings Could Support EU Proposals...
Posted 06 Aug 2008
Animal testing: an historic breakthrough
Key US government agencies this week have issued the clearest and most authoritative statement to date that animal testing does not work. Under a five-year programme, government laboratories will start moving to non-animal methods such...
Posted 15 Apr 2008
MOD to stop experiments on goats!
After years of conducting experiments on goats to determine the effects of extreme pressure and the ‘Bends’ on submarine crews, the MoD has bowed to pressure from MPs, the Southern Animal Rights Coalition and other...
Posted 07 Feb 2008
Animal rights group to challenge monkey experiments in court
New undercover video footage once again exposes the appalling abuse to which animals are subjected in government-sanctioned research laboratories. Although filmed in Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, equivalent ‘procedures’ are carried out in Britain and...
Posted 21 Dec 2007
Appeal Court victory for Animal Aid campaigners
Two Animal Aid supporters have won a landmark Appeal Court victory over police attempts to criminalise them for running a high street information stall, from where they sought public support for a ban on primate...
Posted 09 Sep 2007
Government loses High Court vivisection case
The High Court in London has ruled that the government has been underplaying the severity of suffering experienced by animals in laboratory experiments.
Posted 27 Jul 2007