Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

First Death Documented From Tick-Induced Meat Allergy

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is an immune condition brought about by certain tick bites, which causes a life-threatening ...
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Making Animal Experiments the Exception: The Physicians Committee’s Road to FDA Reform

In April 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies—a landmark initiative that lays out a plan to make animal ...
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Gut–Brain Axis on Chip Reveals How Nutrition Influences Brain Health

Study in a Sentence: Scientists at the Dutch food research organization NIZO and the University of Twente have developed a human-relevant, microfluidic “Gut-Brain Axis on Chip” that models how dietary ...