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Beagles: Research subjects or man’s best friends?
Tiffany Cheng / GAZETTE
The Gazette,
Western University
by Vasoula Ioannidis, News Editor
John Pippin, director of academic affairs with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said people should question why Lawson was able to conduct this dog study when few studies are successful and major research centers have shut down their dog programs.
In a review, Pippin found that a cumulative 96 per cent of drugs tested on animals fail at clinical trials.
A 2022 study conducted by the European Union showed that the number of dogs used in scientific research across the continent declined by 14.1 per cent compared to the previous year.
Meanwhile, Canada has moved in the opposite direction. CCAC data shows a 64 per cent rise in the number of dogs used in research — from 10,717 in 2022 to 16,151 in 2023.
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