Reason

The NIH Deleted Comments Criticizing Animal Testing. A Federal Court Says That Violates the First Amendment.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the First Amendment rights of animal rights activists whose social media comments were deleted by the agency, a federal appeals court ruled last week.

The public is done with animal testing. So why isn’t the government?

After years of court hearings, investigations, open rescues, and protests, the notorious beagle breeding and research ...
Washington Examiner

NIH to phase out dog and cat testing days after Republican complaints

Hours after Republican lawmakers sent a letter to National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya asking him to end dog and cat testing, two top officials at the agency said they are “phasing ...
The Daily Beast

NIH Caught Testing on Dogs Despite Promising It Wouldn’t

A watchdog looking at the National Institute of Health obtained documents that showed the agency was going back on its word and funding cocaine studies on beagles. Breaking News Intern The U.S.
Washington City Paper

The NIH is RFK’s Primate Testing Problem Child

Last month on national TV, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such ...
wjla

Why is NIH still funding animal testing when it announced last year it was phasing it out

WASHINGTON (7News) — Years of pressure from taxpayers, lawmakers, and animal advocacy groups have led to multiple federal agencies banning animal research involving dogs and cats. The list of agencies ...
JD Supra

FDA and NIH Announce Initiatives to Reduce Animal Testing and Encourage Alternative Methodologies

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...
Washington Examiner

NIH stops requests for new studies solely relying on animal testing

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer put out new funding opportunities solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...