HHS has made reducing animal testing a priority over the past year. In April 2025, the FDA announced it would phase out the animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies. A few months later, ...

Health authorities in the U.S. are continuing their move away from animal testing in drug development, with the FDA signaling an openness to new approaches that haven’t been validated and the National ...

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t ...

In other developments, the EPA updated emission standards for polyether polyols and declined to regulate 9 drinking-water contaminants ...

Last month on national TV, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such ...

The Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to phase out animal testing in drug development and seeking to develop new biotechnology methods instead to spur innovation in the pharmaceutical ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the First Amendment rights of animal rights activists whose social media comments were deleted by the agency, a federal appeals court ruled last week.

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer put out new funding opportunities solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...