Mezrich is professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeks to end all federally funded animal ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

A new survey shows that Americans' attitudes toward experiments on animals have changed significantly in recent years, with the vast majority now favoring phasing out animal experiments in favor or ...

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 ...

The letter from Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, a watchdog organization for lab research on animals, referenced a string of violations of federal policies on humane animal research, including ...

(Peter Dazeley/Getty Images) The chronic loss of joint cartilage known as osteoarthritis causes pain and bone decay for ...

RFK Jr. is pushing to end animal testing in the U.S. using AI and human-based alternatives to replace. The post RFK Jr. Wants ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...

The author of Why Animal Research Needs a New Communication Strategy tries to turn documented failures of oversight and performance in use of animals for biomedical research into a messaging problem.