A national group is urging the University of Missouri’s emergency medicine residency program in Columbia to halt its use of live pigs to train new ER doctors. A spokesperson for the medical school ...

A protest against the use of live pigs in medical training was held in front of the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine on Thursday, Feb. 24. People gathered at 11 a.m. and dispersed around ...

SAN DIEGO — The Marine Corps is using live pigs in a training exercise to teach Navy corpsmen and doctors and some infantry Marines how to treat battlefield injuries such as wounds and profuse ...

Pigs have been long used in medical schools to teach surgical techniques and, more recently, in research trials and experimental xenotransplantation procedures. But given the rise of alternative ...

Three months after a national physicians group pressured Oregon Health & Science University to stop using live pigs in its surgical training for residents, an animal rights group is taking up the ...