PubMed® Advanced Search Page Modified

As reported on the Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)website (http://weblogs.nal.usda.gov/awic/archives/007674.html), the PubMed Search Builder section of the Advanced Search page will soon be modified to provide users with a more cohesive method to build searches. This will be very useful to animal researchers when creating protocol application and addressing the 3 R's. See: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_pm_adv_search_page.html

Animals, Research, and Alternatives Conference

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University are sponsoring a conference entitled "The Animals, Research, and Alternatives: Measuring Progress 50 Years Later" on Aug. 26 and 27, 2010, at the Washington Marriott in Washington, D.C.

Topics covered include animal experimentation, changing cultural perspectives about the status of animals in society, and new alternatives to animal research.

To the view the agenda and register for the event, go to http://www.pcrm.org/resch/ara/overview.html

Meeting the Information Requirements of the Animal Welfare Act

The National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland if offering for principal investigators, members of IACUCs, information providers, administrators of animal use programs, and veterinarians a workshop about the responsibilites of meeting the requirements of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

The AWA require that investigators provide documentation with their applications demonstrating that alternatives to procedures that may cause more than momentary pain or distress to the animals have been considered and that the proposed activities do not unnecessarily duplicate previous experiments.

See the NAL website, http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/awicworkshops/regform.htm, for registration information for this free workshop.