What cures to human diseases and afflictions have come as a direct result of testing on animals?
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Green Eyes–get a clue.
Anna–to improve credibility, don’t use wiki as a source.
Cough, cold, flu, headache medications. Diabetes, cancer, tumors, heart, liver, kidney, lung, skin/tissue ailments toxicology research much much more . Surgical procedures (partcularly trauma cases such as gunshots to various parts of the body) and equipment (xrays, mri cscans, eeg, ecgs etc), even some vanity medcines such diet pills, hair loss (or growth) meds, shampoos, soaps, infant formula, praticaly all types of processed foods, etc. soema re still being tested, some have been proven safe so are no longer being tsted
None, that is proven of. Nothing beneficial comes out of animal testing. People just use it as a “just in case” method. And it’s NOT needed by any means.
Anything used to treat humans was tested on animals, period. It has to be. Any medication that you ever get from a doctor was tested on animals. Everyone seems to be interested in the curing medications that people get that were tested on animals. I however, am much more interested in the hundreds of thousands of failed medications that never made it to humans. Those medications are the ones that will make you appreciate the animal testing. Its sad but true about the animals. For me, I’m glad that I don’t have to worry when I get a script from a doctor wether I’m going to drop dead from an untested medication later in the day… aren’t you?
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“For me, I’m glad that I don’t have to worry when I get a script from a doctor wether I’m going to drop dead from an untested medication later in the day… aren’t you?”
Rofecoxib is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) developed by Merck & Co. to treat osteoarthritis, acute pain conditions, and dysmenorrhoea. Rofecoxib was approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 20, 1999 and was subsequently marketed under the brand name Vioxx, Ceoxx and Ceeoxx.
On September 30, 2004, Merck voluntarily withdrew rofecoxib from the market because of concerns about increased risk of heart attack and stroke associated with long-term, high-dosage use. Rofecoxib was one of the most widely used drugs ever to be withdrawn from the market. In the year before withdrawal, Merck had sales revenue of US$2.5 billion from Vioxx. Vioxx was also withdrawn from the market, as was its successor Prexige on August 14, 2007 due to causing severe liver damage and 2 DEATHS.
This medication was tested on animals and still…
Polio and diabetes are two that I can think of, though I’m sure every modern cure or treatment was involved in animal testing.
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Anna,
Yes, that happens, but they are isolated cases for the most part. For every drug that is recalled, there are hundreds more that weren’t. We all know about vioxx, fen-phen, etc., but the point is that these drugs are thoroughly tested and are preferable to being given something that has never been tested.
Should we not have tested to see if arsenic was safe for human consumption?
Assuming that any medications that are used on humans have been tested on animals, I would say a huge numbers of effective treatments and a great many cures have emerged as a result of animal testing.
Taking cancer as an example: while there is no certain cure and there are no guarantees, some cancers can be cured now. 7 out of 10 children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.
Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough – 75% of breast cancers that are found very early – at stage one – for example. There is still a long way to go, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer.
Many drugs have also been rejected as a result of animal testing; and many drugs have been rejected later after clinical trials on people.
I’m a vegan and I wish drugs weren’t tested on animals; but they are and it’s pointless to claim that ‘nothing beneficial’ to human health has come out of animal testing.