LEWIS, N.Y. (AP) — The Adirondacks are a vast stretch of forested mountains noted for the haunting call of loons, the crackle of campfires and the soft swish of kayak paddles on placid lakes. Should ...

MADISON– State Representative Robyn Vining (D-Wauwatosa) and Abby Wurzburger, a 14-year-old student from Wauwatosa, WI, held a press conference to introduce the Wisconsin Humane Cosmetics Act: a bill ...

A Wauwatosa girl who has been advocating for animals is now taking her efforts to the state Capitol. Fourteen-year-old Abby Wurzburger helped introduce a proposal on Tuesday ...

The government restated its manifesto commitment to phase-out animal testing but disappointingly insisted that ‘for now, the use of animals in scientific research remains necessary’ in a debate on the ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Animal testing, long used in science, is considered outdated, cruel and unnecessary. Every year, millions of animals are subjected to painful experiments in laboratories, often resulting in permanent ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eats steak for breakfast, and has been accused by family members of blending up mice and chickens to feed his hawks and cutting off a dead whale’s head to bring it home. But he ...

What drives women in science to challenge the status quo? In this episode of The Life of Her Mind, host, Mia Wood sits down with Dr. Katherine Roe, Chief Scientist in the Laboratory Investigations ...

I am living with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The average survival time after diagnosis is two to five years. I’m in year two. When you have a disease like ...

Plant and animal testing encompasses experimental methods that use whole organisms or their tissues to assess biological responses to chemicals, drugs, genetic modifications, environmental stressors, ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

A warning to any animal lover. This is a difficult watch. From the opening moments of a documentary called “Sentient,” as a hidden camera takes us deep inside the cold, unforgiving hallways of a ...