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Each year, more than 100 million animals—more than three each second—are bred, injected, infected, cut open, genetically altered, and more, in the name of science.
Biomedical research aims to discover the causes of human illnesses and to prevent or treat them, but the benefits of today’s health research are becoming harder to see. A stunning 9 out of every 10 candidate new medicines that appear safe and effective in "animal models" fail in human trials due to unforeseen toxicity or lack of effectiveness. Research that never delivers because of irrelevant or misleading animal models delays medical progress and risks the safety of volunteers in clinical trials.
HSI’s Science Team is exposing failed animal models and pressing for funding to be shifted to more promising—and ethical—avenues of research.
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News
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January 18, 2018
Humane Society International and The HSUS applaud removal of obsolete vaccine animal test requirements
HSI applauded the European Pharmacopoeia Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture for revising their requirements for the safety assessment of vaccines to remove or waive two controversial and scientifically unnecessary animal tests, a move that could spare scores of animals going forward.
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July 13, 2017
Home Office blasted for failing to curb “out of control” breeding of genetically modified animals which accounts for nearly 50 per cent of all procedures
HSI/UK blasted Home Office statistics on the UK’s use of animals in scientific procedures in 2016 as exposing the government’s failure to use its regulatory and research funding powers to curb uncontrolled breeding activities.
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July 6, 2017
휴메인 소사이어티와 한국동물실험대체법학회, 동물실험 대체 기술개발 예산지원 촉구하는 정책 제안서 제출
국제동물보호단체 휴메인 소사이어티 인터내셔널(Humane Society International, HSI)과 한국동물실험대체법학회는 6일 ‘더 나은 국민보건과 환경보호를 위한 과학연구 지원 정책 제안’을 광화문1번가 국민인수위원회 측에 전달했다.
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July 6, 2017
South Korea: Groups urge new administration to prioritise investment in replacement of animals in testing and medical research
HSI and the Korean Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments encouraged South Korea's Moon Jae-in administration to prioritise investment in more predictive, human-specific approaches to testing and medical research instead of cruel and often poorly predictive animal models.
