Animal Welfare Drug and Pharmaceutical

Animal Welfare Drug and Pharmaceutical

Purpose

The primary purpose of the Proposal and AB is to further research the topics assigned for final essay and to begin thinking about the various questions surrounding them; and to learn to identify reliable sources--which will, in turn, help you gather more relevant information in the service of your chosen topic. The secondary purpose of the assignment is to help the entire class build a common list of sources which could be used by everyone for the final essay.

Audience

Yourself, your instructor, and your peers. By writing the Proposal and AB, you can evaluate and revise your knowledge and understanding of the issues. You will demonstrate to your instructor that you are using the close reading skills as you research.

Introduction

The total number of animals used globally in research each year is currently unknown, but it is likely to be in the hundreds of millions. Canada alone uses approximately 2 million animals in research each year, the majority of which are mice and rats. These animals are used for a variety of purposes, including fundamental research, medical studies, product development, regulatory testing of products, and education and training. At the UBC Animal Welfare Program, we have been investigating a number of welfare issues relating to research animals. Our approaches range from research into reducing pain and distress resulting from laboratory procedures, improving the laboratory environments of research animals, exploring how recent developments in research challenge our ability to protect welfare, to understanding attitudes of people towards animal us

Medical device companies of all sizes face real challenges from emerging markets and international compliance. Many of the worlds regions are going through transformations where countries are making decisions to control their own destiny with respect to the standards and the requirements for regulatory compliance. Going, going, going gone are the days when other countries will accept the US standards and policies for managing the compliance or RAQA requirements. Within the pharmaceutical industry it has become more and more apparent that the cost for the development of new products increases while the number of products that reaches the market declines. One of the causes for this phenomenon is the limited sensitivity of existing lung function tests to detect changes in pulmonary function in an early stage. Therefore within the field of respiratory medicine a consensus is starting to form around the need for new outcome parameters.

SleepSign for Animal is powerful sleep analysis software for automatic and manual sleep stage scoring. It recognises several sleep stages, including REM, NREM and awake. With SleepSign the researcher can investigate sleep disruptions or sleep disorders in animals in an efficient and easy way.

Calling the effort the Great Ape Project ("Project"), a number of scholars, scientists, and activists have organized to demand recognition of moral and legal rights for great apes. In the category of great apes, the Project includes chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas, and, surprisingly or not, humans. Supporters of the Project would like to see radical changes in ...