Category: Medical Experiments

A baboon bled to death, and another one was strangled at separate Maryland universities. PETA wants police to investigate and levy possible charges for violating laws against cruelty to animals.

How often can one person lie before it comes back to haunt them? The founder of a monkey torture center in Colombia is about to find out.

Semester after semester, undergraduate students at Utah State University (USU) who are enrolled in a course called Advanced Analysis of Behavior (PSY 3400) are required to lock rats inside barren metal boxes where the animals are trained to push a lever to receive food pellets, all while being bombarded with random bursts of bright light.

“Virtually everyone … gets ill at some point in their first six months.” But that’s not all that happens inside these taxpayer-funded primate prisons. PETA is sounding the alarm.

For more than 40 years, Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Gerald Pepe has used baboons in nightmarish pregnancy experiments, most recently injecting them with hormones and cutting out and killing their babies at various stages of gestation.

PETA is calling for a criminal probe into the Eastern Virginia Medical School laboratory of Gerald Pepe, where mother baboons endured unimaginable suffering.

PETA received internal e-mails showing that staff and students at Oregon Health & Science University are concerned about the mutilation of live pigs in OB/GYN training.

It’s time for Margaret Livingstone to quit her day job. After 40 years of animal experimentation, she’s failed to help humans, despite a monumental monkey body count.

Experimenters are drilling holes into animals’ skulls and implanting electrodes in their brains. But these procedures do nothing to help human patients.

A Virginia state senator, moved by the plight of animals in laboratories, led the enactment of a new law to increase transparency in laboratories that experiment on animals.

The latest xenotransplantation failure proves, yet again, that this Frankenscience is a waste of lives, money, and time. There are kinder, simpler solutions to try.