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

"For too long, bureaucratic inertia has delayed the implementation of these changes, which are vital to saving lives, ...

The FDA’s emerging framework represents more than a regulatory update; it is a paradigm shift toward human-relevant, ...

The Trump administration launched a strike force targeting animal cruelty. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced designated ...

For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it plans to phase out animal testing requirements for biological products and drugs, instead moving toward alternative testing models such ...

Our beauty routines are making animals suffer. Every year, countless rabbits, mice and dogs are subjected to toxic chemical tests so companies can sell new makeup products. These animals are burned, ...

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency is aiming to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of mammals to test the toxicity of chemicals, a move backed by animal rights groups but criticized ...

Times, and technologies, are changing. With growing momentum in the movement to stop harmful animal testing and major advancements in alternative research methods, it’s time to right the wrongs of the ...

Some warn it could limit the EPA's understanding of how chemicals affect humans. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to phase out the use of animal testing to determine whether chemicals ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...