A nonprofit animal rights and medical ethics organization is suing the Defense Department for refusing to disclose details on its use of pigs and goats for medical training at four major military ...

Pigs have been long used in medical schools to teach surgical techniques and, more recently, in research trials and experimental xenotransplantation procedures. But given the rise of alternative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pedestrian walk past a building housing the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in ...

A nonprofit trying to stop MeritCare from using live pigs in its trauma training plans to ask North Dakota State University to stop approving the practice. The Institutional Animal Care and Use ...

The ongoing use of pigs for operation training in the University's emergency medicine residency program reflects poorly on the University and provides inferior training to residents who deserve the ...