Re: Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans?

dh_ld_at_nomail.com
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:43:23 GMT

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:52:48 +0100, "pearl" <tea@signguestbook.ie> wrote:

>"Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ccvett$kqs@library1.airnews.net...
>>
>> "pearl" <tea@signguestbook.ie> wrote in message
>> news:cctnm3$n9i$1@kermit.esat.net...
>> > BMJ 2004;328:514-517 (28 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7438.514
>> >
>> > Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans?
>>
>> Most of our understanding of how the immune system (mice), heart, neurons
>> (brain cells), intestines, spinal cord, pancreas, etc., comes from animal
>> research.
>
>Animal research has been, medically, a waste of time and resources,
>and misleading (!).
>
>ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES -
>Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
>
>"I cannot name one single case in which experiments on animals may
>have led to a useful result."
>Dr med. Philippe Grin, G.P., Video Interview with CIVIS, July 1 1986.
>
>"I am of the opinion that all experiments on animals should be abolished
>because they only lead us to error."
>Dr Marie-Louise Griboval, April 1987.
>
>"As a physician, I am definitely opposed to animal experiments. They
>are totally useless, they don't contribute in any way to progress of medicine."
>Dr med. Jurg Kym, Physicians Have the Word, ATRA, December 1986.
>
>"My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way of
>experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error ever
>committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity."
>Dr G. F. Walker, Medical World, December 1933.
>.......
>http://www.health.org.nz/foreartl.html
>http://www.health.org.nz/contents.html
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Physicians and scientists overwhelmingly agree that animal systems provide
invaluable and irreplaceable insights into human systems because there are
striking similarities between the genetic and physiological systems of animals
and humans.

While medical and scientific advances achieved through animal research are
frequently supplemented by knowledge obtained through non-animal methods
– such as computer models, in vitro research, clinical observation, epidemiology,
and post-marketing drug surveillance – these alternative methods serve only as
adjuncts to basic animal research.

As yet, there is no complete alternative to animal research. There is still an
essential need to test drugs, medical devices and other promising treatments
on some animals before they are tested on humans since even the most
sophisticated technology models cannot mimic the complex cellular interactions
that occur in a living system.

These models significantly reduce reliance on research animals. Indeed, prospects
are favorable for reducing the use of animals in the area of product development
and testing. Conceivably, the day may come when animal research is no longer
necessary.

http://www.fbresearch.org/education/fact-vs-myth.htm
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>Drug-Induced Disorders
>EILEEN G. HOLLAND, PHARM.D., and FRANK V. DEGRUY, M.D.
>University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama
>'..
>Drug-induced disorders, in the form of adverse drug events
>or drug interactions, occur daily in all health care environments.
>Unfortunately, significant morbidity and mortality are often the
>consequence of these reactions. Several studies have reported
>that an average of 10 percent of all hospital admissions may be
>attributable to drug-induced disorders; this percentage may be
>a significant underestimate.1 Furthermore, an evaluation of a
>large sample of 30,195 randomly selected hospital records revealed
>that 1,133 patients (3.7 percent) experienced a disabling injury
>caused by medical treatment while hospitalized.2 Other studies
>report that hospitalized patients have a 1.5 to 43.5 percent chance
>of having a drug-induced disorder.1 Using the conservative figure,
>that 4 percent of hospitalized patients have an adverse event due
>to medical treatment, and extrapolating to the United States, each
>year over 1 million patients are injured while in the hospital, and
>approximately 180,000 die as a result of these injuries.3
>
>In the ambulatory care environment, the incidence of drug-induced
>disorders not causing hospitalization or death is less well known
>because different, less effective methods are used to collect data.
>Reported rates have ranged from 2.6 to 50.6 percent, depending on
>the source of the data.4 The lower rates generally reflect data collected
>from physicians, and the higher rates come from patient surveys.
>..'
>http://www.aafp.org/afp/971101ap/holland.html
>
>> Open heart surgery would not have developed as well as it has and
>> as fast as it has without operations on dogs and pigs.
>
> Deaths per year (US)
>-------------------------------------------------
>heart disease 709,894
>cancer 551,833
>stroke 166,028
>diabetes 68,662
>Chronic Liver Disease/Cirrhosis 26,219
>high blood pressure 17,964
>..
>http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/nutrition_policy.html
>
>And to think that all that was needed was proper nutritional advice..

is an absurd thought which could lead to an unrealistic interpretation.

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