Notes in the Category of C

Notes in the Category C: Reflections on Laboratory Animal Care and Use, written by one of the leaders in laboratory animal science, addresses how to improve laboratory animal care and use while also characterizing the current state of the industry and speculating on its long-term future. The proper care and use of lab animals is critically important to scientists and those who depend on data generated from those animals, such as physicians, patients and their families, consumers, federal and non-profit research funding entities, health advocacy organizations, the FDA, EPA, and other regulatory approval agencies, and companies that invest billions of R&D dollars for creating new diagnostics, drugs, vaccines, and medical devices. This publication offers analysis from someone who has spent a lot of time in the trenches, also presenting new approaches to produce further advances in the field. Offers an open dialogue about problems and issues in laboratory animal scienceDiscusses various approaches to making laboratory animal science programs more cost-effective Presents new frameworks for lab animal medicine that may advance better veterinary care and more informative animal models than currently available