Animal Testing Essential to Medical Progress but Protocols Could Be Improved
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Improvements to animal testing protocols could boost credibility and usefulness, say leading scientists Amsterdam, April 26, 2017 The use of animals in biomedical research has long been the focus of campaigns by animal rights activists. Two leading scientists writing in the European Journal of Internal Medicine give their expert view of the importance of animal testing to medical progress and present ways it could be further improved to yield more useful clinical results. `It cannot be stressed enough that animal studies have led to the production of drugs that have affected the epidemiology of human pathology, contributing to prolonging life. There is no magic formula at present to predict...