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UPDATE: Alamogordo Chimps Get Hiatus From Painful Experiments
DEC 21, 2011 - About 200 chimpanzees at a New Mexico nonresearch site won't go to a Texas lab for experimentation. The chimps (some lifelong lab inmates) remain at Alamogordo Primate Facility indefinitely. An NIH pardon unfolded just hours after a breakthrough report revealed chimps as unnecessary for human HIV vaccine, hepatitis C antiviral drugs, etc… FULL UPDATE
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PROGRESS: Landmark Study Stirs Freeze On Chimp Experiments
DEC 2011 - They are like us, yet not enough to cure us. The Institute of Medicine agrees. Sort of. New findings say researchers can no longer warrant invasive chimpanzee medical experiments. IOM calls for stern limits, with chimps as a last option when research — i.e., animals artifically induced with human disease, poisoned on test drugs — is not viable in other human or nonhuman animals… FULL UPDATE
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UPDATE: Officials Improve Hyderabad Dog Prisons In India
NOV 21, 2011 - Our India sources thank Kinship Circle for amplifying global outcry against dungeon-like pounds in Hyderabad, where dead dogs rot amid the living. Officials are transferring management to local NGOs, as requested. Over 13,000 voices flooded city offices to oppose dogs packed 10-15 per cage, animals eating corpses, fatal surgeries… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! Animal-Free Trauma Training Exceeds Live Animal Labs
NOV 2011 - Thanks to diligent Kinship Circle activists, with Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine leading the way — trauma training has a new face, and she isn't furry or cuddly. Just 5 Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) programs in the U.S. and Canada use live animals, compared to 259 with human simulators in place of animals… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! Army To End Monkey Torture In Nerve Gas Experiments
OCT 14, 2011 - A monkey is dosed with a drug to mimic nerve gas attack. He seizes. Oozes bodily fluids. He is in respiratory failure…The U.S. Army intends to end monkey use in ghastly chemical weapons drills, as confirmed by Dept. of Defense to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, who opposes monkeys as training “tools” for human nerve gas exposure… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! Puerto Rico Boots Bioculture Monkey Breeders-For-Research
OCT 11, 2011 - Good job to Kinship Circle advocates who fought to keep Bioculture's breeding-for-research farm out of Puerto Rico. A Court of Appeals has ruled the firm to not proceed with construction, saving thousands of monkeys from confinement, pain, death. We'll call for action if new developments arise… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! Live Animal Trauma Labs Completely Gone In Canada
OCT 2011 - The last two Canadian universities to go animal-free for trauma training mark an end to live labs nationwide. The University of Sherbrooke in Quebec and Sacre Coeur Hosptial in Montreal won't use dogs or pigs to teach trauma care such as incision, drainage, intubation, etc. Instead, their ATLS syllabus features human-patient simulators… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! Relief For Cats, Pigs At Maryland And Indiana Med Labs
AUG 2011 - At Indiana University students will no longer learn medical techniques on cats, or other animals, in IU's pediatrics residency program. At Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (UHUHS) in Bethesda, MD pigs get a break from use in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instruction courses… FULL UPDATE
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Last SHAC 7 Release, AETA & Framing Activists As “Terrorists”
AUG 3, 2011 - Kevin, the last SHAC 7 prisoner released, moves to a Minneapolis halfway house after 6 years in federal prison. His crime? Operating a website that reports direct action of other activists. The 6 prisoners managed a website about Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal testing lab cited for multiple animal welfare violations… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! NC Research Lab Staff Indicted On Felony Cruelty Charges
JUL 2011 - Kinship Circle members resolutely urged D.A. Frank Parrish to seek prison plus fines for staff at Professional Laboratory & Research Services, a North Carolina lab exposed for horrific cruelty in a PETA undercover probe. In a rare win for “research animals,” a grand jury indicted 4 PLRS workers on 14 felony animal cruelty charges… FULL UPDATE
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JUSTICE: Man Who Stole Karley's Life Denied Probation Release
JUN 16, 2011 - When retired L.A. County assistant fire chief Glynn Johnson smashed Karley's head in with a rock, he underestimated the 6-month old puppy's right to exist. He also never imagined the fury of animal advocates seeking justice for her stolen life. At a 2011 hearing, Johnson tried to cut short a 3-year probation term, after 90 days in jail… FULL UPDATE
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WIN! Vendors Pedaling “Live Goods” Are Banned From Market
MAY 2011 - Authorities did nothing for decades, as birds were confined without water or shade, squashed upside down in closed bags, thrown to the ground from trucks, and crushed inside teeny cages. Why? Because California Penal Code section 597.3 exempts “poultry.” But they are now prohibited from retailing animals, effective 5/27/11… FULL UPDATE
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