Biomedical Research on Animals

Heart attacks, bladder failure, and lack of medical cures are all very serious problems that are killing people today.   How can doctors learn more about these medical difficulties?   Through animal testing doctors can obtain valid results regarding these medical problems and create cures for people with many other medical difficulties.   The progression of medicine and the day to day life styles of the general population rely on the ethical practice of animal testing.   The alternatives to animal testing are not very valid.   "Artificial testing with computer simulations, have not reached a technological level at which these simulations can be trusted to give a valid results to experiments(3)." Also, human testing has many restrictions and guidelines that make it almost impossible to perform tests on humans that could mentally or physically harm the subject.   Therefore, animals provide a necessary involvement in the tests being performed today because there are no other reliable, valid sources for medical or cosmetic experimentation.  
Animal testing is imperative to the progression of medical cures, procedures and drugs. Animal research is constantly insuring the healthy future of others or a future at all for infants and children.   "Recent advancements in biomedical research have led to better treatments for common childhood ailments(5)."   "Today, vaccines developed through animal research have all but eradicated diseases such as small pox and polio and treat asthma, juvenile diabetes, childhood cancer and many other illnesses.(5)"   This can be seen especially in the advancements of drugs used to cure and inhibit the HIV virus and diabetes.   Today, doctors are able to "achieve long-term insulin independence in a small group of severely diabetic patients who had received pancreatic islet cell transplant, something previously achieved in experimental mice and primates but never before in humans(5)."   Now people with sever even life threatening diabetes can receive... [continues]

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