Us WHC Home Album Sabin Awards Americans for Medical Progress and the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation will inaugurate a campaign this fall to enhance public awareness and appreciation of medicine's ongoing search to improve the health and well-being of women. We will focus attention on the attempts by animal rights activists to block vital women's health research. Women hold an enormous stake in the future of animal research in medicine.
Women make three-quarters of all the household decisions about where health care dollars are spent.
And Through Them, For US All There currently are over 350 new medicines to meet women's health needs either in clinical trials or awaiting government approval. These medicines target diseases that affect only women, affect women disproportionally, or are among the top 10 killers of women. Animal research has played a key role in the development of each of these treatments, and all those that are already available to women. Some animal rights groups are trying to end all animal research in medicine. There are many examples of how animal rights groups are impeding scientists' efforts to improve women's health.