Serendipity – by Dr. Amanda Glew  It all started out with a phonecall, as it usually does (or a text, or a Messenger message) Amanda, I can’t handle it anymore, he is left there day after day on his own and if I didn’t feed or water him he wouldn’t see anyone”…. Now to most people, this would constitute neglect.  …

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine—a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit of 12,000 doctors—received confirmation yesterday that Université Laval has ended the use of live animals in its pediatrics residency program. With that decision, there are now no known pediatrics residency programs in Canada or the United States that use animals; all such programs exclusively use human-relevant training methods. According to a …