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Human-based Systems in Drug and Chemical Safety Testing – Toward Replacement, the ‘Single R’

“With growing evidence of the shortcomings of laboratory animal testing to reliably predict human responsiveness to chemicals, questions are now being asked as to whether it is appropriate to use animals as human surrogates at all.”

Dr Robert A. Coleman

ATLA – Alternatives To Laboratory Animals, Volume 42, Issue 6 – December 2014

ATLA is FRAME’s peer-reviewed scientific journal, published six times a year

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World Patient Safety Day – Medication Without Harm

  World Patient Safety Day is grounded in the most fundamental principle of medicine – first do no harm  “Medication Safety” is the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2022. Safer Medicines Trust is a patient safety charity whose mission is to improve the safety of medicines, so we very much support calls for “Medication Without Harm”. The World […]

The crisis of Alzheimer’s disease research: it’s time to embrace a new approach to help patients

The problem Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a leading cause of death in the UK and along with other dementias, is responsible for almost 11% of all deaths in England.1 More than 209,000 new cases are diagnosed each year across the UK.2 It remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide3, affecting nearly 50 million […]