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Article: Limiting animal research would be cruelty to humans. (fair comment).(Brief Article)(Column)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Insight on the News
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- July 29, 2002
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Animal research has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century, for both human and animal health. From antibiotics to blood transfusions, from dialysis to organ transplantation, from vaccinations to chemotherapy, bypass surgery and joint replacement, practically every present-day protocol for the prevention, treatment, cure and control of disease, pain and suffering is based on knowledge attained through research on animals.
In the United States, the animal-rights movement is a vocal anti-research element that discounts the importance of animal studies, claiming that the results of animal research can't be applied to human ...