Medical Testing On Chimpanzees

Medical testing on chimpanzees no longer allowed, the …

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The National Institutes of Health has decided that it will no longer allow its chimpanzees to be used for biomedical research for human health. NewsHour's Stephen Fee reports.

Chimpanzee Testing: Is it the Beginning of the End?

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Medical experiments on chimpanzees can be invasive, involving injections, blood samples and liver biopsies. But some say it's the only way to advance medicine. …

Is it time to end biomedical experiments on monkeys?

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In 2015, the National Institutes of Health banned experiments on chimps, our closest genetic relatives. But that hasn’t ended tests on other primates, despite never-ending criticism from both …

Chimpanzees in Laboratories | PETA

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Pharmaceutical giant Merck infected chimpanzees with hepatitis C and subjected them to invasive liver biopsies and blood work. A contract …

Animal testing on non-human primates - Wikipedia

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Animal Testing | Pros & Cons | ProCon.org

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Vaccines tested on animals have saved millions of animals that would otherwise have died from rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, infectious hepatitis virus, …

Four ways chimps have helped medical research - STAT

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At the Chimp Haven sanctuary in rural Louisiana — home to 186 chimps formerly used for biomedical research, entertainment, or as pets — around half of the residents were previously injected with...

What happens to chimps used in medical research?

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Chimpanzee Testing Today Under the U.S. ChiMP Act, those chimpanzees retired from biomedical research would be cared for at chimpanzee sanctuaries with habitats more akin to their native homes. …

NIH Will No Longer Support Biomedical Research on …

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Since June 2013, based on recommendations from the Council of Councils, NIH has phased out all previously active biomedical research protocols using chimpanzees that did not meet the IOM principles and criteria, and …

Stranded on Liberia's lab chimp islands - BBC News

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A group of 66 tame chimpanzees used for US medical testing faces being abandoned on six Liberian islands amid a potential funding crisis. The animals are those left from 108 chimps used for...