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Health Topics
PCRM is pleased to provide fact sheets on several preventive medicine and nutrition topics: Arthritis Arthritis and Foods Calcium Calcium and Strong Bones: Protecting Your Bones Parents' Guide to Building Better Bones Cancer Breast Cancer Colon C |
Reports from PCRM's Nutrition Department
Five Worst Fast-Food Secret Menu Items March 2013 The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2012 December 2012 The Five Worst Children’s Hospital Food Environments Autumn 2012 Fecal Contamination on Retail Chicken Products in the Buffalo, N.Y., Area November 2012 2012 Airpo |
Frequently Asked Questions About Nutrition
Frequently Asked Questions About Nutrition 1. Do you recommend a vegetarian or a vegan diet? 2. I want to try a vegan diet. How should I start? 3. Is it healthy for children to be on a vegan diet? 4. How do I get protein on a vegan diet? Do I need to combine proteins? 5. How do I get enough calcium on a vegan diet |
Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Experimentation Issues
Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Experimentation Issues 1. What concerns are raised by the use of animals for medical and scientific experiments? 2. What are the alternatives to using animals in medical experiments? 3. Is some animal testing required by law? 4. D |
Health and Nutrition
New in Health and Nutrition Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory Neal D. Barnard, M.D. |
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions Animal Welfare 1. Does the March of Dimes still fund shocking animal experiments? 2. Is there any evidence for the poor treatment of animals in March of Dimes experiments? 3. How can there be any pain or suffe |
Health and Nutrition Fact Sheets
ABOUT PCRM PCRM: Advocates for Ethical Standards in Research, Advocates for Preventive Medicine Through Good Nutrition This brochure explains the dual mission of PCRM and how you can take |
The Use of Animals for Physiology Instruction at the Medical College of Wisconsin
A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. October 11, 2006 (Revised December 20, 2007) I. Executive summary Twenty years ago, live dogs, cats, pigs and other animals were commonly used in physiology, pharmacology, and surgery courses at medical schools. A sta |
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness Introduction The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires that institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs) be established at research facilities that use animals covered under the Act. The Public Health Service and the Interagency Research |
Your Right to Know: Understanding Animal Experiments in Your Community
Selecting a Facility or Experiment Animals in Education Collecting Information Bringing in the Law |
An Examination of Animal Experiments
Inaccurate Results Money Lost, Attention Diverted The Time Factor |
Pound Seizure
By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine opposes the practice of releasing animals from shelters or pounds for use in experimentation, sometimes referred to as pound seizure. PCRM is a national nonprofit organization that addresses several issues in medicine and research. Most ci |
Diet and Cancer Research
function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){ //v3.0 eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'"); if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0; } What we eat and how we treat our bodies on a daily basis have a very powerful effect on our health and quality of life. Although cancer can affe |
PCRM Position Paper on Animal Research
Approved by the PCRM Board of Directors, July 21, 2010 The primary purpose of medical research is to promote human health, and the most direct research methods focus on the study of human populations, individuals, and tissues. Animal research has been used as an alternative method when the study of humans is deemed |
PCRM Online Archive
May 2013: Read this Issue> Physicians Committee Hosts Congressional Vegetarian Caucus; Join the VegRUN Marathon Training Program; Baby Boom + Fast Food = Dementia Boom; Attend the International Conference of Nutrition and the Brain; Physicians Committee Persuades Harvard to Close Primate Facility; Militar |
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