Killing Dogs in Training of Doctors Is to End
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By next month, all American medical schools will have stopped operating on dogs to examine their beating hearts.
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An outbreak of contagious diseases at a shelter where officials admit they kept animals for too long without destroying them has forced the killing of about 1,000 dogs and cats, officials said.
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Regulation of doctors by doctors has been highly-prized by the medical profession for 150 years. Now serious and continuing failings exposed by the Shipman Inquiry could spell its end.
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VICTORIA (CP) - Three siblings of a young boy who was mauled to death by some dogs have been removed from their home, a spokesman for the Ministry of Children and Family Development said Thursday.
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An international conference on female genital mutilation in Africa ends with a fresh call to ban the practice.
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A Hindu wedding ceremony of 18 dogs has been called off in India after hard-line religious groups and animal rights activists said it was a mockery of the religion and cruel to the canines, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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The doctor at the center of a prescription drug scandal involving the Washington softball team has agreed to stop practicing medicine in a settlement with the state Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
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Dozens of dogs seized in an investigation into possible dog fighting on land owned by Michael Vick could be euthanized.
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It's the end of an era, but the national broadcaster's decision may have more to do with money than animal rights
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PAINESVILLE, Ohio - A man who shot his Great Dane in the head may have his jail sentence reduced if he dresses up as a dog.  Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti offered Thursday to cut Robert M.
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Like most decent Americans, I have been sickened by the Michael Vick dogfighting debacle. There can be no excuse for torturing and abusing man's best friend -- forcing dogs to fight to the death, under penalty of death. That a high-profile athlete like Vick carried this out in the name of "sport" makes it all the more disgusting.
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The U.S. National Institutes of  Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using  animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for  research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.
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The boundaries between humans and animals have been eaten away to the point where devoted owners lose all perspective on the petâs role in their social lives.
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A Northcentral Technical College program designed to spur democracy in Ukraine is coming to an end.
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As US Attorney General John Ashcroft is announcing he&#39;ll leave office, he&#39;s taking one last shot at the Oregon law that permits doctors to help terminally ill patients kill themselves.
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Two dogs seized because they were believed to be pit bull-type animals have been saved from a death.
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As a medical student, Dr. Bruce Psaty angered some professors when he refused to kill and dissect a dog. Fellow students ostracized him when he declined to attend banquets paid for by drug companies.