Notes in the Category C: Reflections on Laboratory Animal Care and Use addresses how to improve laboratory animal care and use, also characterizing the current state of the industry and speculating on its long-term future. It offers analysis from a professional who has spent a lot of time in the trenches, also highlighting new approaches to produce further advances in the field. As the proper care and use of lab animals is critically important to scientists and those who depend on data generated from those animals, this comprehensive book is an ideal resource on the topic. Physicians, patients and their families, consumers, federal and non-profit research funding entities, health advocacy organizations, the FDA, EPA, regulatory approval agencies, and companies that invest billions in R&D to create new diagnostics, drugs, vaccines and medical devices will find this an informative addition for their work. 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 improve informative animal models

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Laboratory animal care. Must ad libitum mean "always available"? -- Smart refrigerators and dumb cages -- Thermoneutral zones, we hardly knew ye -- Waiting for SPF zebrafish -- Democratize the guide -- Laboratory animals and GDP -- Laboratory animal medicine. The limits of the generalist -- From bedside to cageside -- Laboratory animal psychiatry -- Laboratory animal management. Is the veterinarian program director a threatened species? -- Sometimes "lean" means "more" -- Magnets and glue -- How do you define quality? -- The rise and demise of standardized husbandry -- Laboratory animal ethics. Public honesty about laboratory animals -- Increasing reduction options -- When humane endpoints aren't -- The hardest field -- Buggy whips and telegrams?

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