Links

http://www.antidote-europe.org Antidote-Europe is a scientific committee of researchers and medical professionals whose aim is to promote advances in biology and toxicology for the benefit of human health and safety. Antidote-Europe has no political, philosophical or religious affiliations.

http://www.animalexperiments.ch Association for the Abolition of Animal Experiments campaigns in Switzerland to inform the public about the dangers to human health resulting from animal experimentation.

http://www.asterand.com Asterand is the leading supplier of human tissue and tissue-based services: "Our mission is to assist the drug discovery industry develop new therapeutics at less cost and get them into the Phase 1 clinical trials with the best possible chance of success. We offer services at the critical Phase ZERO, or pre-clinical drug development in human tissues."

http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier Bandolier is an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare.

http://www.biopta.com Biopta specialises in human tissue bioassays, early detection of adverse cardiovascular risk factors and measurements of vascular function during clinical trials. Their rationale is "proof of concept in man."

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bulletin_of_Medical_Ethics The Bulletin of Medical Ethics is published 10 times a year in the United Kingdom, and provides an independent source of news and views on a wide range of bioethical issues.

http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/Cmm/index.cgi The Centre for Mathematical Medicine comprises members of the University of Nottingham who use mathematics to provide insights into biomedical phenomena. They aim to promote the application of mathematical modelling to medicine and the biomedical sciences, and to stimulate multi-disciplinary research through workshops, seminars and information-sharing.

http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.

http://www.djurforsok.com is a Swedish resource for information about the scientific problems with animal experimentation.

http://www.healthyskepticism.org/index.htm Healthy Skepticism is an international non-profit organisation whose main aim is to improve health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion.

http://www.interniche.org InterNICHE is a global network of students and teachers campaigning for progressive science education, whose focus is animal use and alternatives within biological science, medical and veterinary medical education.

http://www.equivita.it The Italian Antivivisection Scientific Committee aims to coordinate the efforts of Italian doctors and scientists who share the conviction that the fight against animal experiments is a major scientific issue because animal testing is a serious methodological error which misleads and hampers medical progress and research.

http://www.lindalliance.org The James Lind Alliance is a coalition of organisations representing patients and clinicians collaborating to confront important uncertainties about the effects of treatments.

http://www.jameslindlibrary.org The James Lind Library illustrates the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments.

http://www.translational-medicine.com The Journal of Translational Medicine is an open access, online journal publishing papers on all aspects of information derived from human experimentation that will optimise the communication between basic and clinical science (translational medicine). Traditionally, information has passed from the bench to the bedside, leaving the reverse direction largely ignored. However, information obtained from human experimentation can and should be used to refine our understanding of biological principles. This journal promotes communication both from bench to bedside and bedside to bench, with an emphasis on the latter. No other journal is devoted to this critical aspect of medicine.

http://www.mrmcmed.org The Medical Research Modernisation Committee is a US-based health advocacy group composed of physicians, scientists and other health care professionals who evaluate the benefits, risks and costs of medical research methods and technologies. The MRMC attributes the steadily increasing incidence of cancer, AIDS, and other uniquely human diseases to inadequate treatment approaches derived from research programs based on artificial and unnatural laboratory "models." The billions of dollars spent on these research programs should be redirected to population-based prevention and (human) clinical research studies.

http://www.npsa.org.uk The National Patient Safety Agency is a Special Health Authority created in July 2001 to co-ordinate efforts in Britain to report, and more importantly to learn from mistakes and problems that affect patient safety.

http://nofreelunch-uk.org Nofreelunch is an international organisation seeking to change the current relationship between the health professions and the pharmaceutical industry. This relationship is based on hospitality and patronage which is unknown and undeclared to the general public. Without action we will continue with the relentless medicalisation of society and further erode our collective sense of wellbeing.

http://www.pcrm.org The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine is a US-based nonprofit organisation that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.

http://www.physiome.org The goal of the Physiome Project is to understand and describe quantitatively the human organism, its physiology and pathophysiology, and to use this understanding to build and improve upon computational 'models', with the aim of improving human health.

http://www.rds-online.org.uk The Research Defence Society (funded by individual members and by the pharmaceutical industry) is the leading UK organisation defending the use of animals in medical research.

http://socialaudit.org.uk Social Audit Ltd, is the publishing arm of a UK Registered Charity, Public Interest Research Centre Ltd. a strictly independent enterprise, whose principal legal object is "to procure" that organisations of all kinds "properly and adequately serve the interests and needs of the public. Mostly it concerns the web of organisations at the centre of power in pharmaceutical medicine.

http://www.worstpills.org Worstpills.org is maintained by a division of Public Citizen: a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group in the USA. A primary focus is working to ban or relabel unsafe or ineffective drugs and to encourage greater transparency and accountability in the drug approval process.