December 6, 2002

The Dying Trend of Using Live Animals in Labs

Medical schools are moving away from using live animals in laboratories, according to a survey published in the November issue of the journal Academic Medicine. Of the 125 schools in the United States and Puerto Rico, 68 percent say they no longer use live animals in their pharmacology, physiology, or surgery courses.

The lead author of the study, Lawrence A. Hansen, a professor of pathology and neurosciences at the University of California at San Diego, says that "much of the

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