The Cambridge City Council voted May 18 to ban the Classical LD-50 Acute Toxicity Test and the Draize Eye-Irritancy Test. The move is the latest step in a heated local debate on the use of laboratory ...

One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to prolong her life.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once ...

Toxicity-testing strategies designed to generate information on potential hazards or risks posed by environmental agents have evolved in response to legislative mandates, scientific developments, and ...

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three chemotherapy pills to treat her squamous cell carcinoma on Jan.

The US Environmental Protection Agency wants more data on the hazards of a member of the chemical family known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The ...

As pressure increases on major pharma to bring new compounds into development, so too does pressure to make sure that these compounds are safe to test in humans. As evidenced in the TGN1214 trial last ...