The use of beagles — a breed widely recognized as a family companion — makes the issue especially emotional and visible.

Ridglan Farms, which breeds beagles for biomedical research, has been targeted by animal rights groups that accuse the facility of mistreating the animals it houses. The facility has been the site of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "CBS Evening News" reports on the debate over animal testing in medical research after the Trump administration canceled nearly ...

Federal regulators in the United States are pushing harder than ever to reduce and eventually replace animal testing in drug and chemical safety assessments. The FDA has released draft guidance ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...