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Ready for Retirement: Will Congress Release Chimpanzees Used in Experiments
Meet Foxie. She is a 33-year-old chimpanzee living in Washington state. She spends her days playing outside, eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and showing off her favorite toy, a troll doll with blue hair. Until June 2008, Foxie lived in a laboratory in Pennsylvania where she was used in hepatitis vaccine expe |
Commentary on Institute of Medicine's Dec. 15 Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Report
It is two weeks since the landmark Dec. 15 Institute of Medicine report Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity was released. Generally favorable and sometimes gushing reviews have come from scientific, advocacy, and ethics communities, and now we face the critical next step: imple |
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A Long History of Abuse and Neglect of the Alamogordo Chimpanzees
1950s: The U.S. Air Force establishes a colony of chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base made up of 65 young and infant chimpanzees captured in Africa. 1959: Forty chimpanzees to be used in the space program are trained using punishment for error. Electrodes were surgically implanted in the chimpanzees. 196 |
Torture Discussion Should Include Our Treatment of Chimpanzees
By Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H. I first learned about torture when I was 9 years old. My father helped his family escape Iran because of concerns that they would be captured, imprisoned, and tortured for their religious beliefs. Today, as a physician who treats survivors of torture, I have patients whose stories |
Oppose Experiments on New Mexico Chimpanzees
CAMPAIGN UPDATES: Dec. 15: NIH Announces Alamogordo Chimpanzees Will Stay Put for Now > Dec. 15: Institute of Medicine Report Could Spell End of Chimpanzee Experiments > There is an urgent situation in Alamogordo, N. M., that could affect the lives of almost 200 chimpanzees. The National Institut |
‘Apes’ Star Has it Easy Compared with Real Lab Chimpanzees
By John Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. Aug. 24, 2011 Abused. Neglected. Experimented on. Caesar, the digitally created simian hero of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, puts up with a lot before he finally snaps and starts his epic revolt. But as a physician and former animal researcher, I can tell you that this fictional ape |
Institute of Medicine Report Could Spell End of Chimpanzee Experiments
Chimpanzees Not Needed to Develop HIV Vaccine or Hepatitis C Antiviral Drugs, Says Report for National Institutes of Health UPDATE: NIH Announces Alamogordo Chimpanzees Will Stay Put for Now > WASHINGTON—The Institute of Medicine today released a report that finds that chimpanzee experiments are not neede |
Drawing Ourselves into the Lives of Chimpanzees
By Debra Durham, Ph.D. This opinion piece was published on Oct. 30, 2009, in The Orlando Sentinel. I feel your pain. We've heard that phrase so often that it has become political shorthand for the human capacity for empathy. But human beings, it turns out, are hardly the only species capable of sharing another's |
New Mexico Governor Speaks Out for Chimpanzees
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson PCRM experts joined forces with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Nov. 18 to urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate and stop the transfer of the Alamogordo chimpanzees. At the Hall of the States in Washington, D.C., Richardson announced that he had fil |
Behind the Scenes at Institute of Medicine's Meeting on Chimpanzee Experiments
Chimpanzee experiments are not necessary to test new HIV vaccines. They aren’t needed to create a new therapeutic for hepatitis C. Or to develop monoclonal antibody therapeutics. Or to create a malaria vaccine. Or to advance biodefense work. Those statements from scientists at key research institutions and major |
U.S. Chimpanzees Could Go Dutch
In 2002, the Netherlands prohibited future biomedical research on chimpanzees and began releasing them into sanctuaries. Congress now has an opportunity to do the same for U.S. chimpanzees. But the Great Ape Protection Act needs more congressional co-sponsors. PCRM asked you to urge your representatives to join the |
Success! Alamogordo Chimpanzees Will Stay Put for Now
The Alamogordo chimpanzees will have a happy new year. They won’t be moved to a Texas facility where they would have been subjected to invasive experiments. On New Year’s Eve, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico made the announcement that the transfer is being put on hold while the Institute of Medic |
Behind Bars for Longer than We’ve Been Alive
By Sarah Baeckler, M.S., J.D., and Debra Durham, Ph.D. This opinion piece was published on Feb. 5, 2010, in The Seattle Times. Jamie plucked her own hair out from sheer boredom. Negra underwent numerous liver biopsies. Foxie had five children, but they were all taken from her as infants. These stories are all too com |
Doctors File Federal Complaint to Halt Transfer of Chimpanzees for Invasive Experiments
Legal Petition Seeks to Compel HHS Chief Kathleen Sebelius to Retire Elderly New Mexico Chimpanzees and Cancel Their Move to Texas Laboratory WASHINGTON—Elderly chimpanzees living at a nonresearch facility in Alamogordo, N.M., should not be shipped to Texas for use in invasive experiments, says a federal com |
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