Sentences with phrase «medical experiments on»

Statue of 19th - century gynaecologist removed from Central Park A statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th - century gynaecologist whose pioneering treatments were developed through medical experiments on enslaved women, was removed yesterday from its pedestal in Central Park in New York, reports The Times.

The shot of the products cheerfully sent by manufacturers to be used for heinous medical experiments on the Jewish inmates reveals that Bayer (yes, the aspirin company) was among the Nazi regime's ardent supporters (further Internet digging shows that the company finally apologized for its actions in 1995).

The film's raison d'etre are the scenes of crimes against mankind — the most famous monuments of the world crumble under the alien assault, Easter Island is turned into a bowling alley, and the nasty little buggers perform hideous medical experiments on captured humans.

The first activist then jokes that he or she is «gonna run some medical experiments on them» before the second adds: «We could use them as substitutes for animals when testing.»

A time when we still thought it was ok to test harmful medical experiments on mentally disabled individuals.

I do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard human life as more valuable than animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.

Doing so would not lead us to treat animals like people but rather to treat the weakest people like animals, opening the door to such things as conducting medical experiments on the cognitively disabled, which has already been proposed in bioethics literature.

Not exact matches

Partisans of the new scientism are fond of recounting the «Sokal hoax» — physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper heavy on jargon but full of false and meaningless statements to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text, which accepted and published it without quibble — but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

The experiments done on humans DID yeild results that were and are useful to the scientific and medical communities.

Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.

This judgment should be based on enlightened self - interest: Would a vote to grant personhood benefit the rest of us, or harm us (for example, by preventing us from doing lethal experiments on this human that could add to our medical knowledge)?

Such experiments are criticized for wasting medical resources: Why lavish funds and skills on a minuscule subject group when the needs of many others are left untended?

Medical researchers based on the Wirral were desperate to make an advance and began experimenting with various different techniques to help calm the children.

Of course, even if you can economize a specific policy on scale (e.g. negotiating medical costs visavi Obamacare, in theory), that still runs smack into the other downsides of having a federal policy, both # 1 (you impose Obamacare on ~ 50 % of the country that hates it by force); and # 3 (if Obamacare is a bad policy, there's no way to easily tell because it's not like we have a duplicate USA that doesn't run Obamacare and serves as a control group for an experiment).

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Tristan Bekinschtein at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, says he has tried to do the same experiment on adults, but failed, as they woke up.

Closer analysis by independent biostatisticians revealed, however, that the value was calculated on the basis of a single experiment in which half the patients were already known to have ovarian cancer — a highly selected group that is the medical equivalent of a stocked pond.

She worked on the experiments as an undergraduate psychology major, through the Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) program, and is now a medical student at the University of Massachusetts.

Also in this issue, how single - person medical experiments, alternatives to big clinical trials, are leading to breakthroughs on a small scale.

In experiments on monkeys at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, researchers showed that the new coronavirus alone can cause SARS.

In experiments on transgenic mice, teams at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University found that tau jumps from cell to cell in a predictable way along neural highways known as axons.

In a report published earlier this month, the French committee says: «Contrary to all recognised rules for medical research, the first trials on humans were done even though experiments on animals were still extremely limited.»

They will be used in a variety of medical experiments to assess the effects of microgravity on the body.

Nazi doctors, who horrified the world with their own medical experiments, including malaria tests that killed several hundred people, cited the U.S. studies in their defense when they were put on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1947.

In 1992 Colin Blakemore, now chief executive of the Medical Research Council in London, and Ramachandran conducted an experiment on attendees of a seminar we gave at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Researchers at the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) in Nottingham, have just finished the first stage of development, which draws on research showing that human skin cells produce chemicals called cytokines when exposed to chemicals that are irritants.

Roein - Peikar also noted that their experiments are mainly based on Chinese Ovary Hamster cells, a cell line derived from the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research.

The idea for a spinoff medical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cumedical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cuMedical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cultures.

We ran the workshop for the first time at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm campus in the Spring of 2017 (we turned the tables on these HHMI scientists — this time they were the Guinea pigs in our experiment) and we continue to offer and improve it.

She was followed by Elinor Karlsson (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA) who gave an overview on natural selection stating that evolution can be thought of as «the most epic genetic engineering experiment ever».

In a similar medical experiment, researchers discovered that cocaine - using mice passed memory problems on to three generations of descendants thanks to epigenetic changes.

But MPs including Gordon Brown and David Cameron, who both have young children with severe medical conditions, agreed on a free vote that the benefits of stem cell research using embryos were such that experiments, including the use of human admixed embryos, should be allowed.

Perhaps the first person to really put ketogenic diets on the map was Dr. Robert C. Atkins, a cantankerous medical doctor who began experimenting with a low - carb diet in 1963.

After spending a decade experimenting and digging through research at medical libraries I finally refined my diet — not a perfect diet based on hunches, but anyone's perfect diet based on real science.

The other issue I have is we are on a (very) high deductible medical plan, currently between jobs, so funds are somewhat limited and I don't want to experiment with docs and keep wasting money on dogmatists, if you see what I mean.

Researchers and nutritional companies conduct scientific experiments to show the effects of single supplements on medical conditions, including dosage and treatment time.

As medical professionals conduct experiments and do more in - depth studies on how infrared saunas help you lose weight, the case for using sauna treatments to help with weight loss will strengthen lessening confusion for you.

Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near - death experience — giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.

Directed by Joel Schumacher, 1990's «Flatliners» starred Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students who conduct experiments on each other to produce near - death experiences in order to learn about the afterlife.

Synopsis: Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment.

In the film, a group of medical students is trying to perfect a serum that reanimates dead tissue (a la Re-Animator) and have been experimenting on dogs.

Bedlam's backstory is somewhat difficult and comes to him being experimented on in a psychiatric medical institution as a young person (after being orphaned as a kid), so Deadpool 2 will possibly contact on it in short, if in any respect.

Full lesson for KS4 OCR on Medical Ethics - use of animals in experiments.

If you're interested to know what happened during these experiments on women, I don't think it's a spoiler since it actually happened but if you are planning on reading this book and don't won't want any spoilers then skip this paragraph, the rest take a deep breath: Starting in the summer of 1942, medical experiments were conducted without consent on 86 women; 74 of them were Polish inmates.

With a heavy emphasis on his use of the scientific method, Rockliff shows how Franklin's experiment — blindfolding subjects so that they don't know they're being mesmerized — led to the discovery of the placebo effect, a vital component of medical testing to this day.

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(Kennel Club Press Release) FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments) and the Kennel Club have sent an open letter to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government The Rt Hon Greg Clark, MP calling on him and the Government to reverse their decision to grant planning permission for a laboratory...

Dr. Bengston has been conducting research on this form of energy therapy for several decades and has proven the effectiveness of his techniques in ten controlled animal experiments conducted in five university biological and medical laboratories.

Isn't it about time we end the experiments on cats and dogs and treat them the way children are treated through medical trials?