Animal rights extremists: The public is waking up

Crisis planning to manage risks posed by animal rights extremists.

Among the multitude of crises that US research institutions may face are those caused by animal rights activists. While most activists opposed to animal research use peaceful and lawful means of expressing their opinions, some extremists resort to illegal methods. Arson, break-ins, and theft with significant property damage at US animal research facilities began in the 1980s. The most troubling...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Waking up to narcolepsy.

Narcolepsy with cataplexy, certainly one of the most fascinating problems in medicine, always seemed (to us) an unlikely candidate for an autoimmune or infectious etiology. In typical cases, the CSF is bland and MRI unrevealing. Powerful evidence (summarized in reference 1) that abnormalities of the hypocretin system contribute to narcolepsy came initially from genetic studies revealing that ca...

Is Human Rights Prepared? Risk, Rights and Public Health Emergencies

A new force seems to be at work in public health law and practice. Consider, for example, the proliferation of references to ‘preparedness’; specifically, ‘public health emergency preparedness’ and its more specialised variants such as ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’ and ‘international legal preparedness’. There is also increasing use of related phrases such as ‘global public healt...

Waking Up from the American Dream

For eight consecutive months in 2006, Colorado had a greater number of home foreclosures than any other state in the country. Largely attributable to the Denver housing market, this dubious statewide distinction raises questions as to the foreclosure rates and trends in communities beyond the state’s capitol, where little analytical research has been conducted. This project delves into the loca...