RFK Jr. says he'll work with federal agencies to wind down animal testing

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...
pharmaphorum

FDA’s emerging framework to reduce animal testing: Implications for drug development timelines, cost, and clinical strategy

The FDA’s emerging framework represents more than a regulatory update; it is a paradigm shift toward human-relevant, ...
Opinion
Physicians Committee for Responsible MedicineOpinion

Making Animal Experiments the Exception: The Physicians Committee’s Road to FDA Reform

In April 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies—a landmark initiative that lays out a plan to make animal ...
WMUR

FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies, drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there ...
Yahoo

To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods

FDA Commissioner Martin Makary on Thursday announced a move away from animal-based drug testing in favor of human-based methods and artificial intelligence to determine drug safety and effectiveness.
American Council on Science and HealthOpinion

Holiday Gift for the Animals

A rare moment of bipartisan progress has emerged with the Senate’s unanimous passage of the FDA Modernization Act 3.0, ...
Hartford Courant

Animal research and testing brings millions to CT each year. That could change drastically.

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...
ABC News

'Zoobiquity': 7 Diseases Animals Share With Humans

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...