Laboratory animals: NIH to lay down the law

Business ethics, law, and the corporate use of laboratory animals.

We hear quite a bit about corporate social responsibility in our economy. The emphasis in these matters is upon the corporation's treatment of its customers in terms of financial fairness and personal well-being. Few people can be unfamiliar with the Pinto scenario 2 (which culminated in the Ford Motor Company's being tried for murder and acquitted in 1978) or the Dalkon Shield debacle (which r...

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Literature Related to Laboratory Animals

red: morph-specific contest success and survival rates in a colour polymorphic agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour 74:337-341. in females is also lateralized: left-eye bias during aggressive courtship rejection in lizards. Assessment in contests of male lizards (Anolis carolinensis): how should smaller males respond when size matters? Animal Behaviour 69:1325-1336.

Allergy to laboratory animals in laboratory technicians and animal keepers.

The prevalence of allergy to laboratory animals (LAA) was investigated in laboratory technicians and animal keepers. In a questionnaire 41 of 101 technicians reported symptoms provoked by work with laboratory animals. On clinical investigation 30 were found to have symptoms and signs related to contact with animals, and allergy was confirmed by radioallergosorbent tests (RAST) and skin tests in...

An Introduction to Lay Epidemiology

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 21، اسفند 1401، 1228-1227 درآمدی بر اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه An Introduction to Lay Epidemiology محسن رضائیان[1] Mohsen Rezaeian واژه اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه برای اولین بار و در سال 1991 میلادی مورد استفاده قرار گرفت [1]. اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه (Lay epidemiology) به فرآیندی اطلاق می‌گردد که به وسیله آن خطرات مرتبط با سلامت، توسط ...