London, Ont., hospital to stop killing puppies in medical research after public outcry

[shockedcanadian]

Thankfully the public spoke up. More expressions of the humanity that is abound here.

If only citizens in Ontario would do the same for human right abusers against humans...it's a start I suppose.

MSN

St. Joseph's Health Care London has announced it will immediately stop using dogs in medical research after public backlash.

The move comes just days after a report from the Investigative Journalism Bureau claimed researchers inside St. Joseph’s Hospital’s Lawson Research Institute were secretly using and killing puppies for human heart research.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Once Ontario is aware that the world is paying attention, they try and right the wrong.

Remember, just like the annual baby seal hunt, THIS Is what is done to helpless baby animals in Canada. Just imagine what they do to their citizens, especially the young and poor!?

Lawson VP of research and scientific director departs amid outcry over dog cardiac study​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/lawson-vp-of-research-and-scientific-director-departs-amid-outcry-over-dog-cardiac-study-1.7609633

The scientific director and vice president of research at Lawson Research Institute has left the organization, a week after it emerged that clandestine cardiac tests were being performed on dogs at St. Joseph's Hospital, prompting public outcry.

In a brief email to senior staff on Thursday, Roy Butler, president and CEO of St. Joseph's Health Care London, which operates Lawson, announced that Lisa Porter was no longer with the research institute as of Thursday.

"We thank Lisa for her service and wish her well in her future endeavours," the email, sent late Thursday morning, reads.

St. Joseph's initially defended the research after the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), based out of the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, revealed dogs had been used for years as part of a heart study at Lawson.

Published in partnership with Postmedia, the report said researchers from Lawson had been inducing heart attacks as long as three hours in dogs and puppies as part of research aimed at accurately imaging post-heart attack injury and healing.

CBC News has not independently verified the reports from IJB.

Sourced from U.S. breeders, IJB said the dogs, some as young as 10 months, would be wheeled into the hospital in blanket-covered crates and taken to a lab on the hospital's sixth floor. Loud music would be blared to drown out their barking.

The dogs would be euthanized, and their hearts removed for further study, the report said, citing two whistleblowers.