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Anti-vivisection Index
Here's a short listing of advances without animals, provided by the
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
- Discovery of the relationship between cholesterol and
heart disease, the number one cause of death for
Americans
- Discovery of the relationship between smoking and
cancer and nutrition and cancer, the number two cause
of death for Americans
- Discovery of the relationship between hypertension and
stroke the number three cause of death for Americans
- Discovery of the causes of trauma, the number four
cause of death in the United States, and the measures
to prevent it
- Elucidation of the causes of many forms of respiratory
disease, American's number five cause of death
- Isolation of the AIDS virus
- Discovery of the mechanism of AIDS transmission
- Discovery of penicillin and its curative effect on
various diseases
- Development of x-rays
- Development of anti-depressant and anti-psychotic drugs
- Development of vaccine against yellow fever
- Discovery of the relationship between chemical
exposures and birth defects
- Discovery of human blood groups
- Discovery of the mechanism of protein chemistry in
cells, including nucleic substances
- Development of hormonal treatment for cancer in the
prostate and breast
- Discovery of the chemical and physiological visual
process in the eye
- Interpretation of the genetic code and its function in
protein synthesis
- Discovery of the mechanism and action of hormones
- Understanding of cholesterol biochemistry and familial
hypercholesterolemia
- Production of Humulin, a synthetic copy of human
insulin which causes few allergic reactions.
- Understanding of human anatomy and physiology.
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