This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

In 2000, Congress passed the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection Act to provide funding for lifetime care and sanctuary for chimpanzees who had been kept and used in U.S.

This is one of two op-eds published today on the question of whether to close OHSU’s National Primate Research Center. To read the op-ed by OHSU’s chief research officer and the research center ...

Like most others who heard the tragic news, I was saddened to learn that five monkeys were shot and killed by sheriffs last week, and two others shot by area residents this week, when they escaped a ...

YEMASSEE — Greg Westergaard has built his career around monkeys, tracking their most-intimate behaviors and selling them to laboratories to serve as test subjects for cutting-edge drug development and ...