Proven Ways to Improve Women’s Health

Animal experiments are not going to help women live longer, happier, and healthier lives. To the contrary, we’ve shown that animal research can actually harm women by producing false results and diverting badly needed funds. Now let’s look at some of the places those funds should be going.

Prevention
Although treating illness has long been the focus of American medicine, doctors and health-care experts are increasingly coming to view prevention as the most important way to improve human health. After all, anyone would rather avoid cancer than undergo surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy to be free of the disease. Every illness prevented means less suffering, fewer agonizing treatments, fewer side effects and aftereffects, and less cost to our already overburdened health-care system. Fortunately, prevention for most illnesses is easy and affordable and can defend against a far greater number of illnesses than treatment can hope to cure. Learn the real facts about preventing illness.

Epidemiology
Most medical knowledge is advanced through observation. This may begin when a doctor or researcher observes that a particular diet or behavior helps patients recover from a disease or that a certain group of patients never seems to contract a particular disease. From these observations, scientists can design and conduct more systematic studies and start compiling data. While animal researchers seize opportunities to run animal tests and publish papers about the effects of a substance on various species, epidemiologists study how the observed substance or behavior affects human populations in a thorough and systematic way and thus scientifically validate health information. Learn more about epidemiology, the most powerful field in medical science.

Non-Animal Research
Animal researchers claim that animal use is crucial to the scientific process, and that’s why they do it. However, a closer look at medical research shows that animal studies occupy a relatively small and replaceable area of science that neither produces breakthroughs nor confirms their accuracy. In addition to epidemiology, the methods that bring about relevant medical advances include in vitro tests, computer models, gene mapping, and human clinical trials. Learn more about the real methods behind medical advances.